Rhys Matters: New Critical Perspectives

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Introduction: Rhys Matters?....Pages 1-18
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Menu, Memento, Souvenir: Suffering and Social Imagination in Good Morning, Midnight....Pages 21-39
Clockwork Women: Temporality and Form in Jean Rhys’s Interwar Novels....Pages 41-65
Language and Belonging in Jean Rhys’s Voyage in the Dark....Pages 67-83
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
Religion in Rhys....Pages 87-109
“No Pride, No Name, No Face, No Country”: Jewishness and National Identity in Good Morning, Midnight....Pages 111-129
Front Matter....Pages 131-131
The Country and the City in Jean Rhys’s Voyage in the Dark....Pages 133-149
“That Misty Zone Which Divides Life from Death”: The Concept of the Zombi in Jean Rhys’s Short Fiction....Pages 151-167
Reclaiming the Left Bank: Jean Rhys’s “Topography” in The Left Bank and Quartet....Pages 169-185
Front Matter....Pages 187-187
The Trouble with “Victim”: Triangulated Masochism in Jean Rhys’s Quartet....Pages 189-211
“The Good Life Will Start Again”: Rest, Return, and Remainder in Good Morning, Midnight....Pages 213-232
The Un-happy Short Story Cycle: Jean Rhys’s Sleep It Off, Lady....Pages 233-248
Back Matter....Pages 249-271