Good Morning, Midnight (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Jean Rhys
- First Published: 1939
- Type of Work: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: 1937
- Setting: Paris
- Principal Characters: Sasha Jansen, Enno, Rene, Mr. Blank, A Traveling salesman
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Culture, Sexism, Love or romance, Gender roles, Class consciousness, Paris, 1930’s, Poverty or poor people, Emotions, Women’s issues, Alcohol, Depression, mental, Fertility
- Locales: Paris, France
The Novel
Prior to her writing of Good Morning, Midnight, Jean Rhys published four books—a volume of short stories, The Left Bank and Other Stories (1927), and three novels, Postures (1928; published in the United States as Quartet, 1929), After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie (1931), and Voyage in the Dark (1934). After the publication of Good Morning, Midnight, twenty-seven years elapsed before her next novel, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), an imaginative re-creation of the life of Rochester’s mad wife, based on characters...
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