Female Embodiment and Subjectivity in the Modernist Novel
The Corporeum of Virginia Woolf and Olive Moore
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Women Authors, British
| Author: | Renée Dickinson | ISBN: | 9781136603525 |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis | Publication: | August 21, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Routledge | Language: | English |
| Author: | Renée Dickinson |
| ISBN: | 9781136603525 |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
| Publication: | August 21, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
