Abstract: This article locates Simone de Beauvoir in the stream of consciousness, metaphysical novel, and Bildungsroman writing traditions. Its focus is the two opening chapters from the 1938 draft of Beauvoir's first novel, She Came to Stay —first published in French in 1943 as L’Invitée —and deleted at the insistence of her publishers. Although Beauvoir's own philosophical fictions are, in...
Abstract: This article brings the concept of care into the discussion of the literary representation of the stream of consciousness in Dorothy Richardson's thirteen‐volume novel sequence Pilgrimage . I begin by looking at recent theorizations of care by Joan C. Tronto and Berenice Fisher, by Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, and by Sandra Laugier. I show confluences between this work and May...
This article explores the use of stream of consciousness writing in the early work of the British psychoanalyst, life writer, and artist, Marion Milner. Focusing on Milner's 1934 book, A Life of One's Own (first published under the pen name Joanna Field), the first part of the article situates Milner's use of stream of consciousness writing alongside the work of her contemporaries Virginia...