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 Self -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.