Ferocious Things : Jean Rhys and the Politics of Women's Melancholia.
Title:
Ferocious Things : Jean Rhys and the Politics of Women's Melancholia.
Author:
Maslen, Cathleen.
ISBN:
9781443809337
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (279 pages)
Contents:
TABLE OF CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE -- CHAPTER TWO -- CHAPTER THREE -- CHAPTER FOUR -- CHAPTER FIVE -- EPILOGUE -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
Abstract:
It's fatal making a fuss ... . -Jean Rhys, Quartet. Cathleen Maslen's Ferocious Things: Jean Rhys and the Politics of Women's Melancholia closely engages with the most obvious theme of Rhys's writing: the speaking and inscription of feminine anguish. Maslen resists easy generalisations with respect to Rhys's portrayal of women's psychic pain, attending carefully to the nuances of sexual, cultural and ethnic displacement which inform the suffering of Rhys's protagonists. Acknowledging the m...
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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