Jean Rhys's Modernist Bearings and Experimental Aesthetics

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Sue Thomas (La Trobe University, Australia) David Tucker (Goldsmiths University of London UK)

Jean Rhys's Modernist Bearings and Experimental Aesthetics

Sue Thomas (La Trobe University, Australia), David Tucker (Goldsmiths University of London UK), Erik Tonning (University of Bergen Norway) , Matthew Feldman (University of York UK)

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Bloomsbury Academic
27 July 2023

Series: Historicizing Modernism

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.

Tracing the distinctive and shifting evolution of Rhys's experimental aesthetics over her career, Sue Thomas explores Rhys's practices of composition in her fiction and drafts, as well as her self-reflective comment on her writing. The author examines patterns of interrelation, intertextuality, intermediality and allusion, both diachronic and synchronic, as well as the cultural histories entwined within them. Through close analysis of these, this book reveals new experimental, thematic, generic and political reaches of Rhys's fiction and sharpens our insight into her complex writerly affiliations and lineages.

By: Sue Thomas (La Trobe University Australia)
Edited by: David Tucker (Goldsmiths University of London UK), Erik Tonning (University of Bergen Norway), Matthew Feldman (University of York UK)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781350275799
ISBN 10: 1350275794
Series: Historicizing Modernism
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 27 July 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: Jean Rhys's Modernist Bearings 1. Routes to Rhys's Early Fiction 2. The Tropical Reaches of After Leaving Mr Mackenzie 3. Temporality, History and Memory in Voyage in the Dark 4. Depressive Time and Jazz Modernism in Good Morning, Midnight 5. Composing Till September Petronella and Tigers Are Better-Looking 6. The Doudou and Doudouism in Rhys's Fiction 7. Hurricane Poetics in Wide Sargasso Sea Notes Selected Bibliography Index

Sue Thomas is Emeritus Professor of English at La Trobe University, Australia. She is the author of, among other books, The Worlding of Jean Rhys (1999), Imperialism, Reform and the Making of English in Jane Eyre (2008) and Telling West Indian Lives: Life Narrative and the Reform of Plantation Slavery Cultures (2014).

Reviews for Jean Rhys's Modernist Bearings and Experimental Aesthetics

This book offers a virtuosic and revelatory exploration of Jean Rhys's intertextual and intermedial practice. Sue Thomas not only uncovers the depth and eclecticism of Rhys's allusions to literary, artistic, dramatic and musical cultures, but argues for their centrality to her decolonial and feminist politics and her radical aesthetics. * Anna Snaith, King's College London, UK *