Wide Sargasso Sea: A Norton Critical Edition

Wide Sargasso Sea: A Norton Critical Edition

• Author: Norton Critical Ed.-Rhys.
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.; A Norton Critical Edition
• Pages: 288
• Publication Date: 1998
• Edition: 10th printing
• Binding: Paperback
• MSRP: 15.65
• ISBN13: 9780393960129
• ISBN: 0393960129
• Language: en
• Store Location: General Fiction
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<p><strong>Written over the course of twenty-one years and published in 1966, <em>Wide Sargasso Sea</em>, based on Charlotte Brontë’s <em>Jane Eyre</em>, takes place in Jamaica and Dominica in 1839–45.</strong></p> 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 <em>Jane Eyre</em>, 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.