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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780622903321

Autore

Maslen Cathleen

Titolo

Ferocious things [[electronic resource] ] : Jean Rhys and the politics of women's melancholia / / by Cathleen Maslen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009

Newcastle upon Tyne : , : Cambridge Scholars Pub., , 2009

ISBN

1-282-19293-0

9786612192937

1-4438-0933-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (279 p.)

Disciplina

823.912

Soggetti

Depression, Mental, in literature

Women in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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...