Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys and the aesthetics of trauma / Patricia Moran.

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Main Author: Moran, Patricia
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York NY. ; Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
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Table of Contents:
  • Experiences as a body : Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, and the aesthetics of trauma
  • "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" : Jean Rhys and the masochistic aesthetic
  • Epilogue : "The one dependable thing in a world of strife, ruin, chaos" : writing trauma, writing self.