Wide Sargasso Sea

Wide Sargasso Sea

Author: Jean Rhys

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780393308808

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"A considerable tour de force by any standard." ?New York Times Book Review"


Good Morning, Midnight

Good Morning, Midnight

Author: Jean Rhys

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 9780393303940

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A woman encounters a life filled with desires and emotions when she returns to Paris after suffering from a bout of depression and alcoholism in London.


Jean Rhys and the Novel As Women's Text

Jean Rhys and the Novel As Women's Text

Author: Nancy R. Harrison

Publisher:

Published: 2009-07

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780807856420

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###German Social Democracy and the Rise of Nazism# explores the failure of Germany's largest political party to stave off the Nazi threat to the Weimar republic. In 1928 members of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) were elected to the chancellorship and thousands of state and municipal offices. But despite the party's apparent strengths, in 1933 Social Democracy succumbed to Nazi power without a fight. Previous scholarship has blamed this reversal of fortune on bureaucratic paralysis, but in this revisionist evaluation, Donna Harsch argues that the party's internal dynamics immobilized the SPD.


Jean Rhys's Historical Imagination

Jean Rhys's Historical Imagination

Author: Veronica Marie Gregg

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2017-11-01

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 1469617358

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As the foremost white West Indian writer of this century and author of the widely acclaimed novel Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys (1890-1979) has attracted much critical attention, most often from the perspective of gender analysis. Veronica Gregg extends our critical appreciation of Rhys by analyzing the complex relationship between Rhys's identity and the structures of her fiction, and she reveals the ways in which this relationship is connected to the history of British colonization of the West Indies. Gregg focuses on Rhys as a writer--a Creole woman analyzing the question of identity through literary investigations of race, gender, and colonialism. Arguing that history itself can be a site where different narratives collide and compete, she explores Rhys's rewriting of the historical discourses of the West Indies and of European canonical texts, such as Rhys's treatment of Jane Eyre in Wide Sargasso Sea. Gregg's analysis also reveals the precision with which Rhys crafted her work and her preoccupation with writing as performance.


Quartet

Quartet

Author: Jean Rhys

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780393315462

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The story of a woman on the edge caught in the stranglehold between her lover and his wife. When her husband is released from prison, the situation explodes.


Jean Rhys, the Complete Novels

Jean Rhys, the Complete Novels

Author: Jean Rhys

Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 574

ISBN-13: 9780393022261

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Tells the stories of a chorus girl, an unhappy love affair, a prostitute, a woman no longer able to love, and an English-West Indian marriage


The Cambridge Introduction to Jean Rhys

The Cambridge Introduction to Jean Rhys

Author: Elaine Savory

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-04-02

Total Pages: 149

ISBN-13: 1139478478

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Since her death in 1979, Jean Rhys's reputation as an important modernist author has grown. Her finely crafted prose fiction lends itself to multiple interpretations from radically different critical perspectives; formalism, feminism, and postcolonial studies among them. This Introduction offers a reliable and stimulating account of her life, work, contexts and critical reception. Her masterpiece, Wide Sargasso Sea, is analyzed together with her other novels, including Quartet and After Leaving Mr Mackenzie, and her short stories. Through close readings of the works, Elaine Savory reveals their common themes and connects these to different critical approaches. The book maps Rhys's fictional use of the actual geography of Paris, London and the Caribbean, showing how key understanding her relationships with the metropolitan and colonial spheres is to reading her texts. In this invaluable introduction for students, Savory explains the significance of Rhys as a writer both in her lifetime and today.


After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie

After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie

Author: Jean Rhys

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780393315479

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Julia Martin is in Paris and at the end of her rope. Once beautiful, she was taken care of by men. Now after being dropped by her latest lover, she visits London to see her ailing mother and meets up with her distrustful sister, Norah. This is a haunting picture of two desperate women in a desperate predicament.


The Collected Short Stories

The Collected Short Stories

Author: Jean Rhys

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2017-03-02

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 0241290856

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New to Penguin Classics, the remarkable, devastating collected stories by the author of Wide Sargasso Sea. Some of Jean Rhys's most powerful writing is to be found in this rich, dark collection of her collected stories. Her fictional world is haunted by her own, painful memories: of cheap hotels and drab Parisian cafés; of devastating love affairs; of her childhood in Dominica; of drifting through European cities, always on the periphery and always perilously close to the abyss. Rendered in extraordinarily vivid, honest prose, these stories show Rhys at the height of her literary powers and offer a fascinating counterpoint to her most famous novel, Wide Sargasso Sea. This volume includes all the stories from her three collections,The Left Bank (1927), Tigers Are Better-Looking (1968) and Sleep It Off, Lady (1976).