Product Description: While providing close readings of the texts and of their language, Sylvie Maurel examines Jean Rhys's writings through the frames of feminist criticism and literary theory. She explores the various forms of feminine dissent at work in Rhys's fiction, and Rhys is shown to develop an ethics of subversion through resistance to closure, irony, parody and her daring rewriting of Jane Eyre...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)