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Female Embodiment and Subjectivity in the Modernist Novel The Corporeum of Virginia Woolf and Olive Moore
By Renée Dickinson
Copyright 2009
192 Pages
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Routledge
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Routledge
192 Pages
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This study considers 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... Read more
Introduction: Articulating the Corporeum: Formulating the Feminine and Illuminating the Images of Physical, Geographical, National, and Textual Embodiment 1 The Shape of Modernism: Female Embodiment and Textual Experimentation in Mrs. Dalloway 2 Exposure and Development: Re-imagining Narrative and Nation in the Interludes of Virginia Woolf's The Waves 3 Modernist Con(tra)ceptions: Re-conceiving Body and Text in Olive Moore's Spleen 4 Flight of the Feminine and Textual Orientation in Olive Moore's Fugue Epilogue: Feminine Form and Textual Reform
Biography
Renee Dickinson is an Assistant Professor at Radford University.
"Her [Dicksinson] contribution to Woolf studies would be reason enough to invest in this volume, but her recovery of Olive Moore-a novelist about whom very little is know and whose works, with the expection of Spleen, are currently out of print-makes Female Embodiment and Subjectivity in the Modernist Novel essential reading for any scholar who research focuses on British women modernists."
-- April Pelt, University of Delaware, Tusla Studies in Women's Literature, Spring 2010
