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The Wide Sargasso Sea is a novel by Jean Rhys, published in 1966 at age 76. Rewarded by the Royal Society Literature Award, this novel highlighted an author who remained in the shadows. His life undoubtedly inspired Jean Rhys to create the character of Antoinette.
Wide Sargasso Sea by British author Jean Rhys, published in 1966, is a compelling and complex novel that is meant to serve as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. Set in Jamaica during the post-emancipation 1840s, the novel explores the life of Antoinette Cosway, a Creole woman who, in Rhys’s imagining, becomes the madwoman in the ...
Wide Sargasso Sea, novel by Jean Rhys, published in 1966. A well-received work of fiction, it takes its theme and main character from the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. The book details the life of Antoinette Mason (known in Jane Eyre as Bertha), a West Indian who marries an unnamed man in.
Wide Sargasso Sea is a rewriting of Charlotte Bronte’s classic nineteenth-century gothic bildungsroman Jane Eyre (1847). In Bronte’s novel, Bertha Mason is more monster than human, locked away for a decade in secret, in the attic of Thornfield Hall, where her demonic laughter and “savage” snarls disturb the residents of the mansion ...
When she wakes, she is filled with a sense of purpose, lights a candle and descends into the house to act out her dream. Get all the key plot points of Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea on one page. From the creators of SparkNotes.
May 29, 2019 · When Wide Sargasso Sea, her last novel, was published, Jean Rhys (24 August 1890 – 14 May 1979) was described in The New York Times as the greatest living novelist. Such praise is overstated, but Rhys’s fiction, long overlooked by academic critics, is undergoing a revival spurred by feminist studies.
Jan 25, 2016 · by Jean Rhys (Author), Edwidge Danticat (Introduction) 4.3 2,763 ratings. See all formats and editions. This “tour de force” (New York Times Book Review) celebrates its 50th anniversary. Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys’s return to the literary center stage.
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