Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, and the Aesthetics of Trauma

1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-349-53552-1
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 217 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 293 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moran, P.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Experiences of the Body: Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, and the Aesthetics of Damage Cock-a-doodle-dum: Desmond MacCarthy, Sexology, and the Writing of A Room of One's Own The Flaw in the Centre: Writing as Hymenal Rupture in Virginia Woolf's Work Gunpowder Plots: Sexuality and Censorship in Woolf's Later Works When the pervert meets the hysteric: Jean Rhys's Black Exercise Book "A doormat in a world of boots": Rhys and the Masochistic Aesthetic Poisoned at the Source: Sexuality and Female Modernism

Über Autor(innen)

PATRICIA MORAN teaches English at the University of California, Davis, USA.