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1 online resource |
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| Series |
JSTOR EBA.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-237) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : the haunting of Jean Rhys / Erica L. Johnson and Patricia Moran -- Part I. Rhys and modernist aesthetics. Jean Rhys and Katherine Mansfield writing the 'sixth act' / Sue Thomas -- Making a scene : Rhys and the Aesthete at mid-century / Rishona Zimring -- On the veranda : Jean Rhys's material modernism / Mary Lou Emery -- Part II. Postcolonial Rhys. Jean Rhys's environmental language : oppositions, dialogues and silences / Elaine Savory -- Caribbean formations in the Rhysian corpus / Carine M. Mardorossian -- 'From black to red' : Jean Rhys's use of dress in Wide Sargasso Sea / Maroula Joannou -- The discourses of Jean Rhys : resistance, ambivalence and Creole indeterminacy / H. Adlai Murdoch -- Part III. Affective Rhys. The empire of affect : reading Rhys after postcolonial theory / John J. Su -- 'The feelings are always mine' : chronic shame and humiliated rage in Jean Rhys's fiction / Patricia Moran -- 'Upholstered ghosts' : Jean Rhys's posthuman imaginary / Erica L. Johnson. |
| Summary |
"The volume establishes Rhys as a major author with relevance to a number of different critical discourses, and includes a path-breaking section on affect theory that shows how contemporary interest in Rhys correlates with the recent 'affective turn' in the social sciences and humanities." |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Rhys, Jean -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Rhys, Jean. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Johnson, Erica L., 1970- editor.
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Moran, Patricia (Patricia L.), editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781474402194 1474402194 (OCoLC)907131397 |
| ISBN |
9781474402200 (electronic book) |
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1474402208 (electronic book) |
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9781474422260 |
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1474422268 |
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9781474404563 |
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1474404561 |
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9781474402194 |
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1474402194 |
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