Screen LibraryVirginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, and the aesthetics of trauma
This is a study of modernism, sexuality, and subjectivity in the work of two leading women modernists. Each confronted the aspects of her culture and personal history that resulted in a degraded sense of female sexuality and explored how traumatic childhood sexual experiences informed their relation...
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230601857 |
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This is a study of modernism, sexuality, and subjectivity in the work of two leading women modernists. Each confronted the aspects of her culture and personal history that resulted in a degraded sense of female sexuality and explored how traumatic childhood sexual experiences informed their relationship to female corporeality and fiction-writing. |
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Ebook. Originally published in: 2007. |
| Carrier Form: | 228 p. |
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9781403974822 9780230601857 : 0230601855 : |
| CLC: | G0 |
| Contents: | Experiences of the Body: Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, and the Aesthetics of Damage * Cock-a-doodle-dum: Desmond MacCarthy, Sexology, and the Writing of A Room of One's Own * The Flaw in the Centre: Writing as Hymenal Rupture in Virginia Woolf's Work * Gunpowder Plots: Sexuality and Censorship in Woolf's Later Works * When the pervert meets the hysteric: Jean Rhys's Black Exercise Book * "A doormat in a world of boots": Rhys and the Masochistic Aesthetic * Poisoned at the Source: Sexuality and Female Modernism. |