Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, and the Aesthetics of Trauma

P. Moran

Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

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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.

ISBN-13
9781349535521
ISBN-10
1349535524
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2007
Publication date
2007-06-08
Pages
217
Dimensions
216x140x