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...: Stanford UP, 1986 . Craik , Jennifer . The Face of Fashion: Cultural Studies in Fashion . New York: Routledge, 1994 . Emery , Mary Lou . Jean Rhys at “World’s End”: Novels of Colonial and Sexual Exile . Austin: U of Texas P, 1990 . Felski , Rita . The Gender of Modernity...

... and representational means through which national totalities are formulated in late imperial Britain. This essay places Jean Rhys's Voyage in the Dark (1934) in conversation with neoclassical and Keynesian economic theory and policy to specify where both are preoccupied with the notion of “equilibrium” (or the balance...

...Aarthi Vadde GOGWILT CHRISTOPHER , The Passage of Literature: Genealogies of Modernism in Conrad, Rhys, and Pramoedya ( Oxford : Oxford UP , 2011 ), pp. 352 , cloth, $49.95 . © 2012 by Novel, Inc. 2012 Duke University Press The Re-Return to Philology...

... and fast-flowing, abundantly pleasurable prose, her book should find and delight a wide audience and should, at the same time, offer an ongoing defense for “mental vigor, critical thinking, and artistic innovation” (244). The best chapters—one pairing the relentlessly miserable works of Rhys...

... of the study, as well as its limitations, derive from the acuity of this central proposition, which provides for a thoughtful consideration of canonical modern- ist figures—literary and cinematic—including Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Charlie Chaplin, Jean Rhys, and John Dos Passos. Refusing...

... of such manipulation, even as he helps us make sense of it as vital to the modernist landscape. 316 novel | summer 2011 Though with resolutely different motives, a similar act of score-settling underlies Jean Rhys’s Quartet and its portrait of a woman snared in a tangle of abusive...

... of authorial self- construction is not a new one—we can think of Jonathan Freedman’s The Temple of Culture or Marilyn Reizbaum’s James Joyce’s Judaic Other—Linett adds a crucial dimension to this topic by focusing on female authors in particular. Her study examines how Djuna Barnes, Jean Rhys, Dorothy...

... that it had to be written. This one did, and Jeremy Rosen has admirably captured the rise of what he calls the novel of “minor character elaboration” (hereafter MCE), from Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) and Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1967) to Alice Randall's The Wind Done...

..., Margaret Walker, Paule Marshall, Octavia Butler, Jewelle Gomez, Phyllis Alesia Perry, Lucille Clifton, Sherley Anne Williams, Gloria Naylor, Julie Dash, Ntozake Shange, Smone Schwartz-Bart, Michelle Cliff, Jean Rhys, Isabel Allende, Laura Esquivel, Bharati Mukherjee, and Jamaica Kincaid. I...

... (1847) by Charlotte Bronte, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Torn's Cabin (1851-52), Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) by Harriet Jacobs, and Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea (1966). In each of these novels, a Creole woman "incarnates and imports colonial slav- ery into a home in the ruling...

... on a similar metaphor between political and personal stasis.) A final chapter on Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea reads this exemplary text both as a version of canonical English literature and as a sign of an emerging doubleness of Caribbean literary production. It is portrayed as the late work of a white...

... is Assistant Professor of English at Franklin & Marshall College. She has previously published work on Jean Rhys and Virginia Woolf. She is currently completing a book on transatlantic modernism. KATHY ALEXIS PSOMIADES teaches in the English Department at Duke University. She is the author...

...) the combination includes African, Afro-Caribbean, and Afro-British communities. Similarly, the madness explored by the women writers in this book seems often tame when compared with what Sylvia Plath represents in The Bell Jar and Jean Rhys in Wide Sargasso Sea . My criticism is directed less at specific works...

... performed by female modernists. We have only to recall Woolf, Stein, Mansfield, Barnes, and Rhys who denounced a male monopoly of the arts while they endorsed, if not embraced outright, the movement's strong anti-woman sentiment in their criticism of the cult of domes- ticity and in their striking...

...- ginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, Jean Rhys, Rebecca West, and Rabindranath Tagore. But what he is most eager to bring to light under the heading of politics is not negative but positive: the emergence or persistence of social bonds, forms of subaltern collaboration and protopo- litical community...

... wonderfully perceptive readings of Joyce. How does Joyce stack up against other modernists such as Woolf, Gertrude Stein, Jean Rhys, and Djuna Barnes, who are also concerned with the deadening yet eruptive nature of everyday objects? How about Beckett’s sucking stones? Are they banal in the same sense...

... Tono-Bungay, high modernism in James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out, and marginalized later modernism in Jean Rhys’s Voyage in the Dark and Eli- zabeth Bowen’s The Last September. He concludes with a coda offering a broad survey...

... : Louisiana State UP , 1970 , 100 – 127 . Moran Patricia . Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, and the Aesthetics of Trauma . New York : Palgrave , 2007 <doi:10.1057/9780230601857> . Owen Wilfred . “Greater Love.” 1920 . The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry . Ed. Walter...

... of Attention, Jean Rhys’s Good Morning ­M i d n i g h t —that seem like unforgivable omissions until one remembers that even the best books cannot do everything, and forgives them. mark currie, Queen Mary, University of London...

... .” American Economic Review 95 . 3 ( 2005 ): 546 – 97 . Allen Douglas . The Institutional Revolution . Chicago : U of Chicago P , 2012 . Arnold Matthew . “ The Literary Influence of Academies .” Essays Literary and Critical . Ed. Rhys Ernest . London : Dent , 1906 . 26...