Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, and the Aesthetics of Trauma by P. Moran (English) Ha

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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.

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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.

Author Biography

PATRICIA MORAN teaches English at the University of California, Davis, USA.

Table of Contents

Experiences of the Body: Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, and the Aesthetics of Damage 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": Rhys and the Masochistic Aesthetic Poisoned at the Source: Sexuality and Female Modernism

Review

'What a bold, scintillating, and provocative study! Moran's work on the aesthetics of trauma in Woolf and Rhys makes a significant contribution to the field of modernist inquiry and trauma studies. Grounded in a feminist critique of shame and masochism, this book sends Woolf's phantom 'Angel in the House' packing and definitively evicts corporeal anxiety and creative guilt from the house of women's fiction.' - Suzette Henke, Thruston B. Morton Professor of English, University of Louisville'With its focus on sexual trauma as a cause for a differing aesthetics, Moran's study stands as an extremely important contribution to the critical literary fields of modernist female aesthetics and sexual trauma. Moran supports and extends critical work such as Suzette Henke's Shattered Subjects (1998), Doane's and Hodges's Telling Incest (2001), and Miriam Fuchs's The Text is Myself (2004). She brings a larger and more particular scope to these studies, by extensively connecting Woolf's and Rhys's 'damage' to psychoanalytic theories, sexology, and abuse survival. Moran understands both Woolf's and Rhys's traumas through a focus on early 20th-century psychoanalysis. She places Woolf's work on sexuality in contrast with the contemporaneous work on sexology and reads Rhys's trauma through theories of childhood abuse. With its intrepid investigations into an 'aesthetics of damage,' this is an ambitious and successful book." - Georgia Johnston, Associate Professor of English, Saint Louis University

Long Description

"Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, and the Aesthetics of Trauma" studies the intersections of modernism, sexuality, and subjectivity in the work of two leading women modernists. Over the course of her writing career, each came to confront those aspects of her culture and her personal history that resulted in a degraded sense of female sexuality. In particular, both explored the ways in which traumatic childhood sexual experiences informed their relationship to female corporeality and fiction writing. Their narratives about these memories-- and the essays and fictions in which they recovered and worked through them-- are all the more remarkable in that they appeared at a time when Freud's renunciation of the seduction theory had become the authorizing narrative of psychoanalysis.

Review Quote

"What a bold, scintillating, and provocative study! Moran's work on the aesthetics of trauma in Woolf and Rhys makes a significant contribution to the field of modernist inquiry and trauma studies. Grounded in a feminist critique of shame and masochism, this book sends Woolf's phantom 'Angel in the House' packing and definitively evicts corporeal anxiety and creative guilt from the house of women's fiction."--Suzette Henske, Thruston B. Morton Professor of English, University of Louisville

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This book studies the intersections of modernism, sexuality, and subjectivity in the work of two leading women modernists.

Details ISBN1403974829 Short Title VIRGINIA WOOLF JEAN RHYS & Pages 217 Language English ISBN-10 1403974829 ISBN-13 9781403974822 Media Book Format Hardcover Year 2007 Imprint Palgrave Macmillan Place of Publication Gordonsville Country of Publication United States Edition 2007th DOI 10.1604/9781403974822 AU Release Date 2007-06-08 NZ Release Date 2007-06-08 US Release Date 2007-06-08 UK Release Date 2007-06-08 Illustrations IX, 217 p. Author P. Moran Publisher Palgrave USA Edition Description 2007 ed. Publication Date 2007-06-08 Alternative 9781349535521 DEWEY 823.91209 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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