Territories of the Psyche: The Fiction of Jean Rhys

ANNE B. SIMPSON is Professor of English at California State University, USA. She co-edited the volume Seeing Double: Revisioning Edwardian and Modernist Literature, published by St. Martin's Press; and her articles have appeared in such journals as American Imago, Essays in Literature, and Extrapolation.

• Introductory: Jean Rhys and the Landscape of Emotion Voyage in the Dark: Propitiating the Avengers After Leaving Mr Mackenzie: The Search for Maternal Presence Quartet: A Constellation of Desires Good Morning, Midnight: A Story of Soul Murder Wide Sargasso Sea: The Transforming Vision Epilogue

"Anne B. Simpson's Territories of the Psyche is a remarkably systematic Kleinian reading of the fiction of Jean Rhys that shows how both Rhys and Kleinian psychoanalysis cohere in new and unexpected ways. Rhys is a principal link in a chain of feminist modernists that includes Virginia Woolf and Willa Cather, and whose great progenitor is Katherine Mansfield. The international status of feminist modernism reflects its thematic concern with the shifting status of boundaries in both psychical life and the material structures upon which it is propped. Here Simpson's use of Klein proves invaluable in showing how political the psychological is in modern fiction and in modern psychoanalysis." - Perry Meisel, Professor of English, New York University