Female Embodiment and Subjectivity in the Modernist Novel: The Corporeum of Virginia Woolf and Olive Moore [Paperback]

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 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.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Articulating the Corporeum: Formulating the Feminine and Illuminating the Images of Physical, Geographical, National and Textual Embodiment

Chapter One: The Shape of Modernism: Female Embodiment and Textual Experimentation in Mrs. Dalloway

Chapter Two: Exposure and Development: Re-Imagining Narrative and Nation in the Interludes of Virginia Woolfs The Waves

Chapter Three: Modernist Con(Tra)Ceptions: Re-Conceiving Body and Text in Olive Moores Spleen

Chapter Four: Flight of the Feminine and Textual Orientation in Olive Moores Fugue

Epilogue: Feminine Form and Textual Reform

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