Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Rhys, Jean

Publication

New York : W.W. Norton, c1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855.
• Raiskin, Judith L.
• Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855.

Description

xiii, 266 p. : ill., map; 22 cm.

Summary

Beautiful and wealthy Antoinette Cosway's passionate love for an English aristocrat threatens to destroy her idyllic West Indian island existence and her very life; accompanied by notes and criticism.

Series Statement

A Norton critical edition

Uniform Title

Norton critical edition

Subject

• Rhys, Jean > Criticism and interpretation
• Rhys, Jean. > History and criticism
• 1800-1999
• Man-woman relationships > West Indies > Fiction
• West Indies, British > Fiction
• West Indies > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Historical fiction
• Love stories
• Fiction
• Romance fiction

Note

• Prequel to: Jane Eyre / Charlotte Brontë.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-266).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

0393960129 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^98014266^

OCLC

• 235957878
• SCSB-11292906

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library