Jean Rhys: Twenty-first-century Approaches
- Submitting institution
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City, University of London
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 1
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.3366/edinburgh/9781474402194.001.0001
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- ISBN
- 9781474402194
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2015
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Additional information
- This edited volume consisting of an introduction and ten essays brings together the major critics who pioneered the modernist and postcolonial approaches that critically defined Rhys until recently. Here, the strands of modernist and postcolonial interest that run through Rhys’s work intertwine, so that essays that further develop more canonical concerns join with new critical directions such as ecocriticism, posthumanism, archival approaches and affect theory. As co-editors, Moran and Johnson worked closely together and with the contributors to group the collection’s ten newly commissioned essays into three themes: Rhys and Modernist Aesthetics; Postcolonial Rhys; and Affective Rhys. The editorial work involved helping authors to develop the arguments and structure of their chapters, suggesting revisions, and ensuring stylistic and bibliographic consistency. The editors’ jointly authored introduction (pp. 1-18) explores Rhys’s persistently marginal canonicity in modernist and postcolonial studies, arguing that the notion of haunting is central to understanding Rhys’s work and its critical reception. Moran also contributes a single-authored essay (‘“The feelings are always mine”: Chronic Shame and Humiliated Rage in Jean Rhys’s Fiction’, pp. 190-208) to the volume’s path-breaking section on affect theory that shows how contemporary interest in Rhys correlates with the recent ‘affective turn’ in the social sciences and humanities.
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