Ferocious things : Jean Rhys and the politics of women's melancholia / by Cathleen Maslen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maslen, Cathleen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Depression, Mental, in literature.

Women in literature.

Rhys, Jean--Criticism and interpretation.

Rhys, Jean.

Genre:

Libros electrónicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

It's fatal making a fuss ... . -Jean Rhys, Quartet. Cathleen Maslen's Ferocious Things: Jean Rhys and the Politics of Women's Melancholia closely engages with the most obvious theme of Rhys's writing: the speaking and inscription of feminine anguish. Maslen resists easy generalisations with respect to Rhys's portrayal of women's psychic pain, attending carefully to the nuances of sexual, cultural and ethnic displacement which inform the suffering of Rhys's protagonists. Acknowledging the m...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; EPILOGUE; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Descripción basada en metadatos suministrados por el editor y otras fuentes.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-256) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-19293-0

9786612192937

1-4438-0933-0

OCLC:

830168009