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    Wide Sargasso Sea

    Jean Rhys

    Born into the oppressive, colonialist society of 1930s Jamaica, white Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent beauty and sensuality. After their marriage…

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    Good Morning, Midnight

    Jean Rhys

    In 1930s Paris, where one cheap hotel room is very like another, a young woman is teaching herself indifference. She has escaped personal tragedy and has come to France to…

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    I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys

    Miranda Seymour

    An intimate, profoundly moving biography of Jean Rhys, acclaimed author of Wide Sargasso Sea.

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    Quartet

    Jean Rhys

    Set against a background of winter-wet streets, Pernod in smoky cafes and cheap hotel rooms, Marya tries to make something substantial of her life in order to withstand the unreality…

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    The Collected Short Stories

    Jean Rhys

    Reading such stories as a group … can be overwhelming. Yet it is precisely this intense immersion in experience that is the essence of Rhys’ art. The force of her…

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    Voyage in the Dark

    Jean Rhys,Carole Angier

    ‘It was as if a curtain had fallen, hiding everything I had ever known,’ says Anna Morgan, eighteen years old and catapulted to England from the West Indies after the…

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    Jean Rhys

    This book reassesses the precariousness of Jean Rhys as a distinct positionality eliciting an isolated voice which insists and persists. It was originally published as a special issue of the…

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    Wide Sargasso Sea

    Jean Rhys

    If Antoinette Cosway, a spirited Creole heiress, could have foreseen the terrible future that awaited her, she would not have married the young Englishman. Initially drawn to her beauty and…

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    Wide Sargasso Sea

    Jean Rhys

    A gorgeous clothbound edition of Jean Rhys’s great masterpiece of desire and madness in the Caribbean

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    Jean Rhys

    Cheryl Alexander Malcolm,David Malcolm

    This text surveys the small canon of Rhys’s short fiction, organizing its approach around the outsider theme in Rhys’s work. Also included is a biocritical study, and an overview of…

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    Jean Rhys

    Sanford V Sternlicht

    Series Editors: Kinley E. Roby, Northeastern University; Herbert Sussman, Northeastern University; Joseph Bartolomeo, University of Massachusetts; George Economou, University of Oklahoma; Arthur F. Kinney, University of Massachusetts. TWAYNES UNITED STATES…

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    Jean Rhys

    Helen Carr

    Neglected and forgotten for many years, the novels written by the Dominican-born Jean Rhys are widely acclaimed. Her last and most famous novel, Wide Sargasso Sea is a central text…

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    Jean Rhys

    Sylvie Maurel

    Jean Rhys’ writings are examined through the frames of feminist criticism and literary theory. The book explores the various forms of feminine dissent at work in Jean Rhys’ fiction. She…

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    Jean Rhys

    This book reassesses the precariousness of Jean Rhys as a distinct positionality eliciting an isolated voice which insists and persists. It was originally published as a special issue of the…

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    Jean Rhys

    Helen Carr

    A study of Jean Rhys, published as part of the WRITERS AND THEIR WORK series, which draws on both recent feminist and post-colonial theory, and places Rhys’s work in relation…

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    Jean Rhys

    Elaine Savory (New School for Social Research, New York)

    A critical reading of Rhys’s entire oeuvre, informed by recently released unpublished manuscripts. Designed both for the serious scholar and those unfamiliar with Rhys’s writing.

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    Jean Rhys

    Elaine Savory (New School for Social Research, New York)

    Elaine Savory’s study, first published in 1999, is a critical reading of Rhys’s entire oeuvre and is informed by Rhys’s own manuscripts. Designed both for the serious scholar and those…

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    The Worlding of Jean Rhys

    Sue Thomas

    In her reading of Rhys’s fiction and autobiographical writing, the author of this text analyzes the political and ethical locations of Rhys’s authorial and narrative voices with respect to discourses…

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    After Leaving Mr Mackenzie

    Jean Rhys

    Julia Martin is at the end of her rope in Paris. Once beautiful, she was taken care of by men. Now after leaving her lover, she is running out of…

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    Jean Rhys: Life and Work

    Carole Angier (Freelance)

    Bringing great writing back into print - a Faber Finds book.

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    Jean Rhys: A Critical Study

    Thomas F Staley

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    The Cambridge Introduction to Jean Rhys

    Elaine Savory (New School University, New York)

    This Introduction offers a reliable and stimulating account of Rhys’s life, work, contexts and critical reception. Her masterpiece, Wide Sargasso Sea, is analyzed together with her other novels and short…

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    The Cambridge Introduction to Jean Rhys

    Elaine Savory (New School University, New York)

    This Introduction offers a reliable and stimulating account of Rhys’s life, work, contexts and critical reception. Her masterpiece, Wide Sargasso Sea, is analyzed together with her other novels and short…

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    Jean Rhys: A Critical Study

    Thomas F Staley

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    Blue Hour: A Life of Jean Rhys

    Lilian Pizzichini

    This groundbreaking biography of Jean Rhys–best known for her 1966 Wide Sargasso Sea –examines the life of the psychologically traumatized novelist who forever changed the way readers interpret women in…

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    Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea

    Diebowski Jessica

    Wide Sargasso Sea: A Postcolonial Rewriting of Bronte’s Jane Eyre Without doubt, the Victorian classic Jane Eyre has generated a number of intertexual references. Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea (WSS)…

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    Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea

    Carl Plasa

    Carl Plasa provides a survey and analysis of critical responses to Wide Sargasso Sea. The opening chapter outlines initial reactions to the novel. Chapter Two explores Wide Sargasso Sea’s dialogue…

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    Territories of the Psyche: The Fiction of Jean Rhys

    A. Simpson

    Jean Rhys is widely credited for exposing issues of gender, nationality, race, and class in technically sophisticated, arresting narratives.

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    Territories of the Psyche: The Fiction of Jean Rhys

    A. Simpson

    Jean Rhys is widely credited for exposing issues of gender, nationality, race, and class in technically sophisticated, arresting narratives.

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    Jean Rhys and the Novel As Women’s Text

    Nancy R. Harrison

    Is a woman’s writing different from a man’s? Many scholars - and readers - think so, even though there has been little examination of the way women’s novels enact the…

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    Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

    Anthony Fowles

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    Exploring Cultural Identities in Jean Rhys’ Fiction

    Cristina-Georgiana Voicu

    Carries out an examination of the relationship between hybrid identities, self and otherness and of several situations of existential ambivalence that work on the border between sign (colonial difference) and…

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    Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, and the Aesthetics of Trauma

    P. Moran

    This is a study of modernism, sexuality, and subjectivity in the work of two leading women modernists. Each confronted the aspects of her culture and personal history that resulted in…

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    Jean Rhys’s Modernist Bearings and Experimental Aesthetics

    Sue Thomas (La Trobe University Australia)

    Addressing Jean Rhys’s composition and positioning of her fiction, this book invites and challenges us to read the tacit, silent and explicit textual bearings she offers and reveals new insights…

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    Jean Rhys’s Modernist Bearings and Experimental Aesthetics

    Sue Thomas (La Trobe University, Australia)

    Addressing Jean Rhys’s composition and positioning of her fiction, this book invites and challenges us to read the tacit, silent and explicit textual bearings she offers and reveals new insights…

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    Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, and the Aesthetics of Trauma

    P. Moran

    This is a study of modernism, sexuality, and subjectivity in the work of two leading women modernists. Each confronted the aspects of her culture and personal history that resulted in…

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    Jean Rhys: Twenty-First-Century Approaches

    Presents perspectives of the author in relation to modernism, postcolonialism, and theories of affect. This volume includes, fresh essays which demonstrate centrality to modernism and to postcolonial literature. It also…

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    The Collected Short Stories

    Jean Rhys

    Reading such stories as a group … can be overwhelming. Yet it is precisely this intense immersion in experience that is the essence of Rhys’ art. The force of her…

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    Voyage in the Dark: A Novel

    Jean Rhys

    Prescient and technically astonishing. -Geoff Dyer, GQ

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    Smile Please

    Jean Rhys

    Jean Rhys’s beautifully written, bitter-sweet autobiography, covering her chequered early years in Dominica, England and Paris

    Jean Rhys wrote this autobiography in her old age, now the celebrated author of…

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    Ferocious Things: Jean Rhys and the Politics of Women’s Melancholia

    Cathleen Therese Maslen

    It’s fatal making a fuss … . -Jean Rhys, Quartet. Cathleen Maslen’s Ferocious Things: Jean Rhys and the Politics of Women’s Melancholia closely engages with the most obvious theme of…

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    Colonialism and the Modernist Moment in the Early Novels of Jean Rhys

    Carol Dell'Amico

    Presenting Jean Rhys as an insightful colonial observer of the European modernist moment, this study explores her early work and brings to light highly developed colonial polemics that are integral…

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    The Unspeakable Mother: Forbidden Discourse in Jean Rhys and H.D.

    Deborah Kelly Kloepfer

    Moving back and forth between experience and language, The Unspeakable Mother operates out of the intersection of two perspectives: women’s immersion in the mother/daughter dyad and the paradoxical absence of…

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    A Study Guide for Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea

    Cengage Learning Gale

    A Study Guide for Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…

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    Colonialism and the Modernist Moment in the Early Novels of Jean Rhys

    Carol Dell'Amico

    First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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    Transnational Jean Rhys: Lines of Transmission, Lines of Flight

    A reassessment of Jean Rhys’s literary cosmopolitanism in terms of transnationalism and her literary influences, including an interview with novelist Caryl Phillips –

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    Transnational Jean Rhys: Lines of Transmission, Lines of Flight

    A reassessment of Jean Rhys’s literary cosmopolitanism in terms of transnationalism and her literary influences, including an interview with novelist Caryl Phillips –

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    Jean Rhys’s Historical Imagination: Reading and Writing the Creole

    Veronica Marie Gregg

    Jean Rhys’s Historical Imagination: Reading and Writing the Creole

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