Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1: 'I Must Live within Stories': Narratives of the Self
2: 'As Fluid as Mercury': Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Questions of Identity
3: Sphinxes and Scheherezades: The Actress and the Femme Fatale
4: 'Revolution in Writing': Gender, Modernism, and the Aesthetics of the Ideal Language
5: 'I am the Other Face of You': Fantasies and Femininity
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Helen Tookey was born in Leicester in 1969. She studied philosophy at Sheffield and Cambridge, gaining a D.Phil from Oxford in 2000. She has taught at Liverpool University and Manchester Metropolitan University.

Reviews

The book reveals Tookey's thorough grasp of Nin's writings and of all relevant and recent literary criticism.... Articulate, readable, and well footnoted, with a good bibliography and index, this is a valuable volume for Nin scholars.
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