“Always the same stairs, always the same room”: the uncanny architecture of Jean Rhys's Good morning, midnight

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“Always the same stairs, always the same room”: the uncanny architecture of Jean Rhys's Good morning, midnight

Jean Rhys’s Good Morning, Midnight (1939) is a novel that returns obsessively to the uncanny architecture of the Parisian hotel, through providing insight into the deracinated experiences of protagonist Sasha Jansen, a woman existing at the peripheries of the interwar city. Strikingly, this uncanny...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Zimmerman, Emma
Format:	Article
Published:	Indiana University Press 2015
Subjects:	Jean Rhys; Uncanny; Hotel; Architecture; Modernity
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/36941/

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