| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xiii, 270 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
A Norton critical edition |
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Norton critical edition.
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| Note |
Prequel to: Jane Eyre / Charlotte Bronte. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-266). |
| 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. |
| 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 Bronte -- 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" |
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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. |
| Subject |
West Indies, British -- Fiction.
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West Indies -- Fiction.
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West Indies -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction.
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Love stories.
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| Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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Love stories.
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| Added Author |
Raiskin, Judith L.
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Bronte, Charlotte, 1816-1855.
Jane Eyre.
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| ISBN |
0393960129 (pbk.) |
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9780393960129 (pbk.) |
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0606209913 (Turtleback) |
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9780606209915 (Turtleback) |
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