num_pages: 226
description: 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.
language: English
title: Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, and the Aesthetics of Trauma
titlecomplete: Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, and the Aesthetics of Trauma
genres: Nonfiction, Womens
ratings_count: 4
publisher: Palgrave Macmillan