"Addressing Jean Rhys's composition and positioning of her fiction, this book invites and challenges us to read the tacit, silent and explicit textual bearings she offers and reveals new insights about the formation, scope and complexity of Rhys's experimental aesthetics. Tracin…
Pity represents a combination of fear, helplessness and overwhelming agitation. It is a term which suffuses our everyday lives, it is also a dangerous term hovering between approval of sympathy and disapproval of emotional wallowing (as in 'self-pity'). This book traces an entir…
Engages with the most obvious theme of Jean Rhys' writing: the speaking and inscription of feminine anguish. The author resists easy generalisations with respect to Rhys' portrayal of women's psychic pain, attending carefully to the nuances of sexual, cultural and ethnic displac…
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 generalisat…
