Jean Rhys and the Novel As Women's Text

Is a woman’s writing different from a man’s? Many scholars — and readers — think so, even thought here has been little examination of the way women’s novels enact the theories that women theorists have posited. In Jean Rhys and the Novel as Women’s Text, Nancy Harrison makes an important contribution to the exchange of ideas on the writing practice of women and to the scholarship on Jean Rhys.

Harrison determines what the form of a well-made women’s novel discloses about the conditions of wo...