Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, and the Aesthetics of Trauma
Patricia Moran
226 pages, Hardcover
ISBN: 1403974829
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Language: English
Publish: June 8, 2007
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.