Wide Sargasso Sea / Jean Rhys ; backgrounds, criticism, edited by Judith L. Raiskin, University of Oregon.

Written over the course of twenty-one years and published in 1966, Wide Sargasso Sea, based on Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, takes place in Jamaica and Dominica in 1839-45. Textual notes illuminate the novel's historical background, regional references, and the non-translated Creole and Fr...

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Main Author: Rhys, Jean
Other Authors: Raiskin, Judith L.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton, ©1999.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Norton critical edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • The text of Wide Sargasso Sea. Introduction / by Francis Wyndham ; Wide Sargasso Sea
  • Backgrounds. [The Sargasso Sea] / Rachel L. Carson
  • From Jane Eyre. Jane Eyre and Bertha ; The ruined wedding ; Rochester's story ; Fire at Thornfield Hall / Charlotte Brontë
  • Selected letters. To Peggy Kirkaldy (Oct. 4, 1949) ; To Maryvonne Moerman (Nov. 9, 1949) ; To Peggy Kirkaldy (Dec. 6, 1949) ; To Morchard Bishop (Jan. 27, 1953) ; To Francis Wyndham (March 29, 1958) ; To Selma Vaz Dias (April 9, 1958) ; To Francis Wyndham (Sept. 27, 1959) ; To Diana Athill (Aug. 16, 1963) ; To Francis Wyndham (March 7, 1964), (April 14, 1964), (1964)
  • To Diana Athill (March 9, 1966) / Jean Rhys
  • The bible is modern
  • From Smile please. Books ; Meta ; My mother ; Black/white ; Facts of life
  • From "Black exercise book."
  • Criticism. Jean Rhys / Derek Walcott
  • Modernist crosscurrents / Mary Lou Emery
  • "The other side" : Wide Sargasso Sea and Jane Eyre / Michael Thorpe
  • [The place of Jean Rhys and Wide Sargasso Sea] / Kenneth Ramchand
  • Carnival of psyche : Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea / Wilson Harris
  • Race and Caribbean culture as thematics of liberation in Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea / Sandra Drake
  • [History and narrative in Wide Sargasso Sea] / Lee Erwin
  • Burning down the house : the revisionary paradigm of Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea / Caroline Rody
  • Unquiet ghosts : the struggle for representation in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea / Mona Fayad
  • [Wide Sargasso Sea and a critique of imperialism] / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
  • [Two native voices in Wide Sargasso Sea] / Benita Parry
  • England : dream and nightmare / Judith Raiskin
  • Jean Rhys : a chronology.