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Female Sexuality in Modernist Fiction: Literary Techniques for Making Women Artists

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Author(s): Elaine Wood
Series: Interdisciplinary Research in Gender
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2021

Language: English

Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of contents
Introduction: Makeup artists and characters: Woolf, Yeats, Joyce, Beckett, and their literary fictions
Notes
1 Clothing and the female body in Woolf’s Orlando
Notes
2 Yeats’ female forms and poetic figures
Section 1: artistic expression
Section 2: dancer imagery
Section 3: embodying knowledge
Section 4: baptism of the sewer
Notes
3 Joyce’s portrait of the artist as a young girl
Section 1: Pépette’s Vanity Table and the Reign of Nuvoletta
Section 2: Issy takes a (rain)bow at the playhouse
Section 3: sexed education: Issy’s nightlesson in systemic inequality
Section 4: the “sacred virginity” and nosepaper of a queen bee
Notes
4 Playing the (body) part in Beckett’s theater
Section 1: trapped, talking heads in Play and Happy Days
Part 1, Play
Part 2, Happy Days
Section 2: “motionless” mouth speaks in Not I
Section 3: the punctuating rhythms of Footfalls and Rockaby
Part 1, Footfalls
Part 2, Rockaby
Notes
Conclusion: The woman made-up
Bibliography
Index