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Maslen Cathleen |
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Titolo |
Ferocious things [[electronic resource] ] : Jean Rhys and the politics of women's melancholia / / by Cathleen Maslen |
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Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009 |
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Newcastle upon Tyne : , : Cambridge Scholars Pub., , 2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-19293-0 |
9786612192937 |
1-4438-0933-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (279 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Depression, Mental, in literature |
Women in literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-256) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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TABLE OF CONTENTS; FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; EPILOGUE; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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... |
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