Claire Jarvis is the author of Exquisite Masochism: Marriage, Sex, and the Novel Form (2016). She is currently working on a book about Barbara Pym and Dorothy L. Sayers.
Claire Jarvis
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Writing on Public Books
Birth of a Mother
What exactly is motherhood? I’ve been mulling it over the past few months, during which time I again experienced pregnancy and childbirth, and again dealt with the confusion and sleep deprivation that attend the motherhood of early infancy. I agreed to write something for Public Books during my last trimester, a period that, this time, […]
Birth of a Mother
What exactly is motherhood? I’ve been mulling it over the past few months, during which time I again experienced pregnancy and childbirth, and again dealt with the confusion and sleep deprivation that attend the motherhood of early infancy. I agreed to write something for Public Books during my last trimester, a period that, this time, […]
Austen’s Bodies
Walking back from seeing Love & Friendship, Whit Stillman’s new film adaptation of Jane Austen’s unfinished epistolary novella Lady Susan, I passed a bus stop with a Fiat advertisement on it: “All Pride; No Prejudice,” it read. I was confused. What did it mean? Anyone who has read Pride and Prejudice knows Austen’s titular terms […]
Virtual Roundtable on “Fifty Shades of Grey”
With over 29 million copies sold in trade paperback alone and translations afoot in languages from Arabic to Tagalog, the Fifty Shades trilogy …
