Wide Sargasso Sea

Wide Sargasso Sea
Author: Jean Rhys
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1992
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780393308808

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

The Cambridge Introduction to Jean Rhys

The Cambridge Introduction to Jean Rhys
Author: Elaine Savory
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 149
Release: 2009-04-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 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.

Dinosaurs on Other Planets

Dinosaurs on Other Planets
Author: Danielle McLaughlin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2016
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0812998421

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"In a raw seacoast cabin, a young woman watches her boyfriend go out with his brother, late one night, on a mysterious job she realizes she isn t supposed to know about. A man gets a call at work from his sister-in-law, saying that his wife and his daughter never made it to nursery school that day. A mother learns that her teenage daughter has told a teacher about problems in her parents marriage that were meant to be private problems the mother herself tries to ignore. McLaughlin conveys these characters so vividly that readers will feel they are experiencing real life. Often the stories turn on a single, fantastic moment of clarity after which nothing can be the same."--

Jean Rhys's Historical Imagination

Jean Rhys's Historical Imagination
Author: Veronica Marie Gregg
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2017-11-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 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.

Morning in the Burned House

Morning in the Burned House
Author: Margaret Atwood
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1995
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780395825211

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The renowned poet and author of The Handmaid's Tale "brings a swift, powerful energy" to this "intimate and immediate" poetry collection (Publishers Weekly). These beautifully crafted poems -- by turns dark, playful, intensely moving, tender, and intimate -- make up Margaret Atwood's most accomplished and versatile gathering to date, setting foot on the middle ground / between body and word. Some draw on history, some on myth, both classical and popular. Others, more personal, concern themselves with love, with the fragility of the natural world, and with death, especially in the elegiac series of meditations on the death of a parent. But they also inhabit a contemporary landscape haunted by images of the past. Generous, searing, compassionate, and disturbing, this poetry rises out of human experience to seek a level between luminous memory and the realities of the everyday, between the capacity to inflict and the strength to forgive.

Good Morning, Midnight

Good Morning, Midnight
Author: Jean Rhys
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 202
Release: 1986
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 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.

Wide Sargasso Sea at 50

Wide Sargasso Sea at 50
Author: Elaine Savory
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2020-11-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3030282236

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This book revisits Jean Rhys’s ground-breaking 1966 novel to explore its cultural and artistic influence in the areas of not only literature and literary criticism, but fashion design, visual art, and the theatre as well. Building on symposia that were held in London and New York in 2016 in honour of the novel’s half-century, this collection demonstrates just how timely Rhys’s insights into colonial history, sexual relations, and aesthetics continue to be. The chapters include an extensive interview with novelist Caryl Phillips, who in 2018 published a novel about Rhys’s life, an account of how Wide Sargasso Sea can be read through the lens of the #MeToo Movement, a clothing line inspired by the novel, and new critical directions. As both a celebration and scholarly evaluation, the collection shows how enduring Rhys’s novel is in its continuing literary influence and social commentary.

The Ruin of a Rake

The Ruin of a Rake
Author: Cat Sebastian
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2017-07-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0062642529

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A 2017 RT Reviewer's Choice Nominee for Best Digital Historical! One of Goodreads' Best Romances of July A RT Book Review Top Pick! “Sebastian proves she is a new force to be reckoned with in historical romances.”—Booklist Rogue. Libertine. Rake. Lord Courtenay has been called many things and has never much cared. But after the publication of a salacious novel supposedly based on his exploits, he finds himself shunned from society. Unable to see his nephew, he is willing to do anything to improve his reputation, even if that means spending time with the most proper man in London. Julian Medlock has spent years becoming the epitome of correct behavior. As far as he cares, if Courtenay finds himself in hot water, it’s his own fault for behaving so badly—and being so blasted irresistible. But when Julian’s sister asks him to rehabilitate Courtenay’s image, Julian is forced to spend time with the man he loathes—and lusts after—most. As Courtenay begins to yearn for a love he fears he doesn’t deserve, Julian starts to understand how desire can drive a man to abandon all sense of propriety. But he has secrets he’s determined to keep, because if the truth came out, it would ruin everyone he loves. Together, they must decide what they’re willing to risk for love.

All Hallows at Eyre Hall

All Hallows at Eyre Hall
Author: Luccia Gray
Publisher: Lucia Garcia Magaldi
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2014-05-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9788461710096

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Experience the mystery and magic of a Victorian Gothic Romance, set in Eyre Hall, and rediscover the charm of Jane Eyre in this stunning sequel. Twenty-two years after her marriage to Edward Rochester, Jane is coping with the imminent death of her bedridden husband, while Richard Mason, Rochester's first wife's brother, has returned from Jamaica, revealing unspeakable secrets once again, and drawing Jane into a complex conspiracy. Everything Jane holds dear is threatened. Who was the man she thought she loved? What is she prepared to do to safeguard her family and preserve her own stability?

Voyage in the Dark

Voyage in the Dark
Author: Jean Rhys
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780393358124

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"Prescient and technically astonishing." --Geoff Dyer, GQ