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Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, and the Aesthetics of Trauma /

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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 relation...

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Main Author: Morán, Patricia (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Subjects:
Literature.
Aesthetics.
Cultural Studies.
Fiction.
Gender Studies.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Culture > Study and teaching.
Gender expression.
Gender identity.
Literature, Modern > 20th century.
Popular culture > Study and teaching.
Sex (Psychology)
Sociology.
Electronic books.
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Summary: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.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (228 pages)
ISBN:9780230601857
DOI:10.1057/9780230601857