Studies the intersections of modernism, sexuality, and subjectivity in the work of two women modernists. This work looks particularly at how both women explored the ways in which traumatic childhood sexual experiences informed their relationship to...
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Studies the intersections of modernism, sexuality, and subjectivity in the work of two women modernists. This work looks particularly at how both women explored the ways in which traumatic childhood sexual experiences informed their relationship to female corporeality and fiction-writing
Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-208) and index
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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
