Category: Book Wide Sargasso Sea

Wide Sargasso Sea, a novel by Jean Rhys, is regarded as not only a great standalone novel, but also a powerful prequel to Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre. Published in 1966, the novel delves into the story of the ‘madwoman in the attic’ from Jane Eyre, Bertha Mason. However, in Wide Sargasso Sea she gets a…

Woman, Enslavement and Madness in Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea Adrienne Rich defines revision as “the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction” (305). The act of revision may thereby be seen as the act of re-reading a text while in the process…