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Record Nr.

UNINA9910957013803321

Autore

Moran Patricia (Patricia L.)

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

9786611361358

9781281361356

1281361356

9780230601857

0230601855

Edizione

[1st ed. 2007.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (228 p.)

Disciplina

823.91209

Soggetti

Fiction

Culture - Study and teaching

Sex

Literature, Modern - 20th century

Aesthetics

Fiction Literature

Cultural Studies

Gender Studies

Twentieth-Century 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. [191]-208) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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



Sommario/riassunto

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.