Wide Sargasso Sea

Textual notes illuminate the novel's historical background, regional references, and the non-translated Creole and French phrases necessary to fully understand this powerful story. Backgrounds includes a wealth of material on the novel's long evolution, it connections to Jane Eyre, and Rhys's biographical impressions of growing up in Dominica. Criticism introduces readers to the critical debates inspired by the novel with a Derek Walcott poem and eleven essays.

About the author

Autor Jean Rhys,geb. 1890 auf der kleinen westindischen Insel Domenica, begann 1923 in Paris gefördert von Ford Maddox Ford zu schreiben. Bis 1939 erschienen Erzählungen und vier Romane. Erst 1966, mit der Veröffentlichung von 'Sargassomeer', wird Jean Rhys wiederentdeckt, ihr literarischer Rang mit Sylvia Plath und Virginia Woolf verglichen. Jean Rhys starb im Mai 1979 in Devonshire.

Product details

• Authors: Jean Rhys
• Assisted by: Judith Raiskin (Editor), Judith L Raiskin (Editor), Judith L. Raiskin (Editor)
• Publisher: Norton W W Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.03.1999
• EAN: 9780393960129
• ISBN: 978-0-393-96012-9
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 213 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Norton Critical Editions; Norton Critical Editions
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature