Erica L. Johnson is currently Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of English at Pace University. She is the author of Caribbean Ghostwriting (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2009) and of Home, Maison, Casa: The Politics of Location in Works by Jean Rhys, Marguerite Duras, and Erminia Dell’Oro (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2003) and the co-editor, with Patricia Moran, of The Female Face of Shame (Indiana University Press, 2013). Patricia Moran is Reader in English and Head of Department at City, University of London. Prior to joining City she held appointments at the University of Limerick and the University of California, Davis. She has published widely on women modernists, including Katherine Mansfield, Jean Rhys and Virginia Woolf.

Jean Rhys’s persistent "strangeness" continues to unsettle the theoretical categories used to interpret her work and our own social structures. These new essays by leading Rhys scholars offer fascinating insights into Rhys’s oeuvre and its influence on 21st century understandings of global modernism, ecocriticism, affect studies, and posthumanist theory. These perspectives, by Rhys and her critics, are essential for these new times.

• Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; List of Figures; Introduction, Patricia Moran and Erica L. Johnson; I. Rhys and Modernist Aesthetics; 1. Sue Thomas (LaTrobe University), ‘Jean Rhys and Katherine Mansfield Writing the “Sixth Act”’; 2. Rishona Zimring (Lewis and Clark College), ‘Making a Scene: Rhys and the Aesthete at Mid-Century’; 3. Mary Lou Emery (University of Iowa), ‘On the Veranda: Jean Rhys’s Material Modernism’; II. Postcolonial Rhys; 4. Elaine Savory (The New School), ‘Rhys’s Fictional Environment: A Postcolonial Ecocritical Reading’; 5. Carine Mardorossian (SUNY Buffalo), ‘Caribbean Formations in the Rhysian Corpus’; 6. Maroula Joannou (Anglia Ruskin University), ‘”From Black to Red”: Jean Rhys’s Use of Dress in Wide Sargasso Sea’; 7. H. Adlai Murdoch (Tufts University), ‘The Discourses of Jean Rhys: Creole Indeterminacy, Radical Ambivalence and Postcolonial Resistance’; III. Affective Rhys; 8. John J. Su (Marquette University), ‘The Empire of Affect: Reading Rhys after Postcolonial Studies’; 9. Patricia Moran (University of Limerick), ‘”the feelings are always mine”: Chronic Shame and Humiliated Rage in Jean Rhys’s Fiction’; 10. Erica L. Johnson (Pace University), ‘”Upholstered Ghosts”: Jean Rhys’s Posthuman Imaginary’; Bibliography

Erica L. Johnson is currently Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of English at Pace University. She is the author of Caribbean Ghostwriting (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2009) and of Home, Maison, Casa: The Politics of Location in Works by Jean Rhys, Marguerite Duras, and Erminia Dell’Oro (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2003) and the co-editor, with Patricia Moran, of The Female Face of Shame (Indiana University Press, 2013). Patricia Moran is Reader in English and Head of Department at City, University of London. Prior to joining City she held appointments at the University of Limerick and the University of California, Davis. She has published widely on women modernists, including Katherine Mansfield, Jean Rhys and Virginia Woolf.

Jean Rhys’s persistent "strangeness" continues to unsettle the theoretical categories used to interpret her work and our own social structures. These new essays by leading Rhys scholars offer fascinating insights into Rhys’s oeuvre and its influence on 21st century understandings of global modernism, ecocriticism, affect studies, and posthumanist theory. These perspectives, by Rhys and her critics, are essential for these new times.

• Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; List of Figures; Introduction, Patricia Moran and Erica L. Johnson; I. Rhys and Modernist Aesthetics; 1. Sue Thomas (LaTrobe University), ‘Jean Rhys and Katherine Mansfield Writing the “Sixth Act”’; 2. Rishona Zimring (Lewis and Clark College), ‘Making a Scene: Rhys and the Aesthete at Mid-Century’; 3. Mary Lou Emery (University of Iowa), ‘On the Veranda: Jean Rhys’s Material Modernism’; II. Postcolonial Rhys; 4. Elaine Savory (The New School), ‘Rhys’s Fictional Environment: A Postcolonial Ecocritical Reading’; 5. Carine Mardorossian (SUNY Buffalo), ‘Caribbean Formations in the Rhysian Corpus’; 6. Maroula Joannou (Anglia Ruskin University), ‘”From Black to Red”: Jean Rhys’s Use of Dress in Wide Sargasso Sea’; 7. H. Adlai Murdoch (Tufts University), ‘The Discourses of Jean Rhys: Creole Indeterminacy, Radical Ambivalence and Postcolonial Resistance’; III. Affective Rhys; 8. John J. Su (Marquette University), ‘The Empire of Affect: Reading Rhys after Postcolonial Studies’; 9. Patricia Moran (University of Limerick), ‘”the feelings are always mine”: Chronic Shame and Humiliated Rage in Jean Rhys’s Fiction’; 10. Erica L. Johnson (Pace University), ‘”Upholstered Ghosts”: Jean Rhys’s Posthuman Imaginary’; Bibliography

Erica L. Johnson is currently Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of English at Pace University. She is the author of Caribbean Ghostwriting (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2009) and of Home, Maison, Casa: The Politics of Location in Works by Jean Rhys, Marguerite Duras, and Erminia Dell’Oro (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2003) and the co-editor, with Patricia Moran, of The Female Face of Shame (Indiana University Press, 2013). Patricia Moran is Reader in English and Head of Department at City, University of London. Prior to joining City she held appointments at the University of Limerick and the University of California, Davis. She has published widely on women modernists, including Katherine Mansfield, Jean Rhys and Virginia Woolf.

Jean Rhys’s persistent "strangeness" continues to unsettle the theoretical categories used to interpret her work and our own social structures. These new essays by leading Rhys scholars offer fascinating insights into Rhys’s oeuvre and its influence on 21st century understandings of global modernism, ecocriticism, affect studies, and posthumanist theory. These perspectives, by Rhys and her critics, are essential for these new times.

• Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; List of Figures; Introduction, Patricia Moran and Erica L. Johnson; I. Rhys and Modernist Aesthetics; 1. Sue Thomas (LaTrobe University), ‘Jean Rhys and Katherine Mansfield Writing the “Sixth Act”’; 2. Rishona Zimring (Lewis and Clark College), ‘Making a Scene: Rhys and the Aesthete at Mid-Century’; 3. Mary Lou Emery (University of Iowa), ‘On the Veranda: Jean Rhys’s Material Modernism’; II. Postcolonial Rhys; 4. Elaine Savory (The New School), ‘Rhys’s Fictional Environment: A Postcolonial Ecocritical Reading’; 5. Carine Mardorossian (SUNY Buffalo), ‘Caribbean Formations in the Rhysian Corpus’; 6. Maroula Joannou (Anglia Ruskin University), ‘”From Black to Red”: Jean Rhys’s Use of Dress in Wide Sargasso Sea’; 7. H. Adlai Murdoch (Tufts University), ‘The Discourses of Jean Rhys: Creole Indeterminacy, Radical Ambivalence and Postcolonial Resistance’; III. Affective Rhys; 8. John J. Su (Marquette University), ‘The Empire of Affect: Reading Rhys after Postcolonial Studies’; 9. Patricia Moran (University of Limerick), ‘”the feelings are always mine”: Chronic Shame and Humiliated Rage in Jean Rhys’s Fiction’; 10. Erica L. Johnson (Pace University), ‘”Upholstered Ghosts”: Jean Rhys’s Posthuman Imaginary’; Bibliography