Female embodiment and subjectivity in the modernist novel : the corporeum of Virginia Woolf and Olive Moore

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Female embodiment and subjectivity in the modernist novel : the corporeum of Virginia Woolf and Olive Moore

Renée Dickinson

(Literary criticism and cultural theory)

Routledge, 2009

  • : hbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-174) and index

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This studyconsiders the work of two experimental British women modernists writing in the tumultuous interwar period--Virginia Woolf and Olive Moore--by examining four crucial incarnations of female embodiment and subjectivity: female bodies, geographical imagery, national ideology and textual experimentation. Dickinson proposes that the ways Mrs. Dalloway, and The Waves by Virginia Woolf and Spleen and Fugue by Olive Moore reflect, expose and criticize physical, geographical and national bodies in the narrative and form of their texts reveal the authors' attempts to try on new forms and experiment with new possibilities of female embodiment and subjectivity.

Table of Contents

Permissions Acknowledgments Introduction: Articulating the Corporeum: Formulating the Feminine and Illuminating the Images of Physical, Geographical, National and Textual Embodiment Chapter One: The Shape of Modernism: Female Embodiment and Textual Experimentation in Mrs. Dalloway Chapter Two: Exposure and Development: Re-Imagining Narrative and Nation in the Interludes of Virginia Woolf's The Waves Chapter Three: Modernist Con(Tra)Ceptions: Re-Conceiving Body and Text in Olive Moore's Spleen Chapter Four: Flight of the Feminine and Textual Orientation in Olive Moore's Fugue Epilogue: Feminine Form and Textual Reform Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

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