Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, and the Aesthetics of Trauma / by P. Moran.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moran, Patricia (Patricia L.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fiction.

Culture--Study and teaching.

Culture.

Sex.

Literature, Modern--20th century.

Literature, Modern.

Aesthetics.

Fiction Literature.

Cultural Studies.

Gender Studies.

Twentieth-Century Literature.

Local Subjects:

Fiction Literature.

Cultural Studies.

Gender Studies.

Twentieth-Century Literature.

Aesthetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (228 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2007.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; 1 Experiences as a Body: Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, and the Aesthetics of Trauma; 2 ""Cock-A-doodle-dum"": Desmond MacCarthy, Sexology, and the Writing of A Room of One's Own; 3 ""The Flaw in the Centre"": Writing as Hymenal Rupture in Virginia Woolf's Work; 4 Gunpowder Plots: Sexuality and Censorship in Woolf's Later Works; 5 When the Pervert Meets the Hysteric: Jean Rhys's Black Exercise Book; 6 ""A Doormat in a World of Boots"": Jean Rhys and the Masochistic Aesthetic

Epilogue: ""The one Dependable Thing in a World of Strife, Ruin, Chaos"": Writing Trauma, Writing SelfNotes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-208) and index.

ISBN:

9786611361358

9781281361356

1281361356

9780230601857

0230601855

OCLC:

567997676