My Next Bride: Kay Boyle's Text of the Female Artist

The Gender of the Artist: Some Positions in the Debate on Creativity

“…If the male's textual desire is a substitution for his sexual desire for woman, the female's sexual-textual pleasure is claimed to be consisting in a desire for 'many' or 'children'. For instance, Kay Boyle's artist-novel My Next Bride (1934) is said to be countering Joyce's 'isolation', by an interest in 'the nurturant social role' (Morse 1988: 342) and the fate of humanity (Spanier 1988: 252). Woolf herself is seen interested in 'the people' and 'the mass' rather than the 'I' of the male writer (Beer 1987: 88).…”