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Jean Rhys

  • Textbook
  • © 1998

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Authors:
  1. Sylvie Maurel
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  • Wild Sargasso Sea is a commonly studied novel
    Very little accessible criticism of Rhys is available

Part of the book series: Women Writers (WW)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Sylvie Maurel
    Pages 1-9

  3. Quartet: The ‘Authored’ Woman

    • Sylvie Maurel
    Pages 10-26

  4. After Leaving Mr Mackenzie: ‘Between Dog and Wolf’

    • Sylvie Maurel
    Pages 27-50

  5. The Ironic Other

    • Sylvie Maurel
    Pages 51-80

  6. Voyage in the Dark: ‘Two Tunes’

    • Sylvie Maurel
    Pages 81-101

  7. Good Morning Midnight: ‘Every Word I Say Has Chains Round its Ankles’

    • Sylvie Maurel
    Pages 102-127

  8. Wide Sargasso Sea: The Woman’s Text

    • Sylvie Maurel
    Pages 128-166

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 167-182
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About this book

Jean Rhys' writings are examined through the frames of feminist criticism and literary theory, providing close readings of the texts and their language. The book explores the various forms of feminine dissent at work in Jean Rhys' fiction. She is shown to develop an ethics of subversion through resistance to closure, irony, parody and her daring rewriting of Jane Eyre. Each novel is treated as a complete aesthetic whole, with substantial references to the short stories, for a more penetrating insight into Jean Rhys' fictional universe.

About the author

SYLVIE MAUREL is Lecturer in English at the University of Toulouse 2, France. A graduate of École Normale Supérieure and of the University of Paris 3, she received her Doctorate degree from the University of Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle. She wrote her Doctorate thesis on the fiction of Jean Rhys.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Jean Rhys

  • Authors: Sylvie Maurel

  • Series Title: Women Writers

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27006-4

  • Publisher: Red Globe Press London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Sylvie Maurel 1998

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 200

  • Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave

  • Topics: Postcolonial/World Literature

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