Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, and the Aesthetics of Trauma - Hardcover

by P. Moran (Author)

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.