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Strange Intimacies - Affect, Embodiment and Materiality in Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys - by Eret Talviste (Hardcover)
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Highlights
- This book explores how the novels by Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys - To the Lighthouse (1927), The Waves (1931), Between the Acts (1941), After Leaving Mr Mackenzie (1930), Voyage in the Dark (1934) and Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) - maintain an attachment to and love for life amid disenchanting times of war and social change.
- Author(s): Eret Talviste
- 232 Pages
- Literary Criticism, Feminist
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About the Book
Examines the life-affirming and enchanting aspects of Woolf's and Rhys's modernism with feminist, affect and new materialist theories.Book Synopsis
This book explores how the novels by Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys - To the Lighthouse (1927), The Waves (1931), Between the Acts (1941), After Leaving Mr Mackenzie (1930), Voyage in the Dark (1934) and Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) - maintain an attachment to and love for life amid disenchanting times of war and social change. Drawing from Woolf's and Rhys's personal writings and fictions, Talviste demonstrates that Woolf and Rhys locate this attachment to life in the moments and atmospheres of 'strange intimacy' - in sensual, affective and oddly intimate moments that function as cracks in the dominant patriarchal and imperial ideologies of Woolf's and Rhys's times. To theorise strange intimacy, this monograph rethinks the feminist works of Hélène Cixous, especially her attention to materiality, affect and embodiment, in the light of contemporary affect studies and new materialism.Dimensions (Overall): 9.21 Inches (H) x 6.14 Inches (W)
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Sub-Genre: Feminist
Genre: Literary Criticism
Number of Pages: 232
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Format: Hardcover
Author: Eret Talviste
Language: English
Street Date: October 31, 2025
TCIN: 1002787392
UPC: 9781399502375
Item Number (DPCI): 247-37-9322
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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