Strange Intimacies – Affect, Embodiment and Materiality in Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys
Author:   Eret Talviste (Researcher in English Literature, Northumbria University)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
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Pages:   240
Publication Date:   31 October 2025
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Strange Intimacies – Affect, Embodiment and Materiality in Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys


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Author:   Eret Talviste (Researcher in English Literature, Northumbria University)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:  

9781399502375


ISBN 10:   1399502379
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   31 October 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: Strange Intimacies of Virginia Woolf’s and Jean Rhys’s Modernism 1. Wonder(ing) in To the Lighthouse 2. Yearning in After Leaving Mr Mackenzie 3. Non-Familial, Horizontal Threads of Friendship in The Waves 4. Viscerality of Haunting: The Missing People in Voyage in the Dark 5. A ‘tingling, tangling, vibrating’ Englishness in Between the Acts 6. The Embodied Sense of Belonging to a Place in Wide Sargasso Sea Bibliography Index

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Populated with feeling bodies and exploring sensory joy, this is a book for scholars interested in affective, affirmative approaches to the modernist novel. Supported by insights from feminist, new materialist and posthumanist thought, Talviste’s perceptive readings of Woolf and Rhys stage intimate encounters with human strangers and more-than-human strangeness. * Derek Ryan, University of Kent *


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Eret Talviste is a researcher in English Literature at the University of Tartu, Estonia. Following a PhD scholarship in modernist intimacies at Northumbria University in Newcastle, she joined Tartu in 2021 as a part-time researcher. In 2022 she won the Estonian Research Council’s funding for a comparative project 'Women, Nations, and Affect: The Importance of Leida Kibuvits’s Writing in the Context of Transnational Modernisms'. She has published various book reviews, essays, and academic papers in both Estonian and English. This is her first monograph.

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