Further Reading
- Angiers, Carole. Jean Rhys. London: André Deutsch, 1990, 762 p. (A thorough biography that explores Rhys's life in relation to her work.)
- Auchincloss, Eve. Review of Sleep It Off, Lady in The Washington Post Book World (7 November 1976): G1-G2. (Praises "urgent creative intelligence," which Rhys uses to "transmute observation and experience into utterly original works of art.")
- Berry, Betsy. "'Between Dog and Wolf': Jean Rhys's Version of Naturalism in 'After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie.'" Studies in the Novel 27, No. 4 (Winter 1995): 544-62. (Offers critical analysis of 'After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie,' drawing attention to Rhys's stylistic connection to French naturalism.)
- Borinsky, Alicia. "Jean Rhys: Poses of a Woman as Guest," in The Female Body in Western Culture, edited by Susan Rubin Suleiman, pp. 288-302. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1986. (Examines the ways in which Rhys's female characters are defined by their surroundings.)
- Borinsky, Alicia. "Jean Rhys: Poses of a Woman as Guest." Poetics Today 6, Nos. 1-2 (1985): 229-43. (Examines the characterization of female protagonists in Rhys's fiction.)
- Erwin, Lee. "'Like in a Looking-Glass': History and Narrative in 'Wide Sargasso Sea.'" Novel: A Forum on Fiction 22, No. 2 (Winter 1989): 143-58. (Discusses the historical underpinnings of 'Wide Sargasso Sea,' particularly Rhys's portrayal of racism, nationalism, and divided self-identity in the West Indies after the Emancipation Act of 1833.)
- Gardiner, Judith Kegan. "The Grave,' On Not Shooting Sitting Birds,' and the Female Esthetic." Studies in Short Fiction 20, No. 4 (Fall 1983): 265-70. (Analyzes female creativity as evidenced in short stories by Katherine Anne Porter and Rhys.)
- Hagley, Carol R. "Ageing in the Fiction of Jean Rhys." World Literature Written in English 28, No. 1 (Spring 1988): 115-25. (Contends that Rhys's exploration in her fiction of "the ill-treatment of women in a male-dominated world" reflects her wider concern with "the alienation and exploitation of human beings anywhere regardless of age or sex.")
- Howells, Coral Ann. Jean Rhys. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. (Book-length critical study of Rhys's novels and short stories, including discussion of her placement as a feminist, colonial, and modernist author.)
- James, Louis. Jean Rhys. London: Longman, 1978, 74 p. (Critical survey of Rhys's fiction.)
- Jebb, Julian. "Sensitive Survivors." The Times, London (30 March 1968): 21. (Review of 'Tigers Are Better-Looking' that proclaims Rhys "a twentieth-century master.")
- Kendrick, Robert. "Edward Rochester and the Margins of Masculinity in 'Jane Eyre' and 'Wide Sargasso Sea.'" Papers on Language and Literature 30, No. 3 (Summer 1994): 235-56. (Considers Edward Rochester's inadequacies and redefinition of patriarchal male identity through his interactions with Jane Eyre and Antoinette Cosway in the complimentary texts of Brontë and Rhys.)
- Kloepfer, Deborah Kelly. "'Voyage in the Dark': Jean Rhys's Masquerade for the Mother." Contemporary Literature 26, No. 4 (Winter 1985): 443-59. (Examines the significance of the mother-child relationship, the absence of mothers in Rhys's fiction, linguistic alienation among women in 'Voyage in the Dark,' and the novel's revision.)
- Kloepfer, Deborah Kelly. The Unspeakable Mother: Forbidden Discourse in Jean Rhys and H. D. Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press, 1989, 191 p. (Study of language in Rhys's fiction.)
- Mellown, Elgin W. Jean Rhys: A Descriptive and Annotated Bibliography of Works and Criticism. New York: Garland Publishing, 1984, 218 p. (Exhaustive reference work with citations through the early 1980s; includes a useful introduction.)
- Neck-Yoder, Hilda van. "Colonial Desires, Silence, and Metonymy: 'All Things Considered' in 'Wide Sargasso Sea.'" Texas Studies in Literature and Language 40, No. 2 (Summer 1998): 184-208. (Discusses aspects of narrative authority and the repression of colonial impulses in 'Wide Sargasso Sea.')
- Nixon, Nicola. "'Wide Sargasso Sea' and Jean Rhys's Interrogation of the 'nature wholly alien' in 'Jane Eyre.'" Essays in Literature XXI, No. 2 (Fall 1994): 267-84. (Provides analysis of Bertha's madness in 'Jane Eyre' and Rhys's corresponding portrayal of female alienation and patriarchal imperialism in 'Wide Sargasso Sea.')
- O'Connor, Teresa F. "Jean Rhys, Paul Theroux, and the Imperial Road." Twentieth Century Literature 4, No. 4 (Winter 1992): 404-14. (Examines "The Imperial Road," an unpublished story by Rhys, and its relationship to two of Theroux's stories.)
- Roe, Sue. "'The Shadow of Light': The Symbolic Underworld of Jean Rhys." In Women Reading Women's Writing, edited by Sue Roe, pp. 229-62. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. (Examines Rhys's narrative style, characterization of victimized women, paradoxical themes of suffering and resignation, and the significance of imagery in her fiction.)
- Streip, Katharine. "'Just a Cérébrale': Jean Rhys, Women's Humor, and Ressentiment." Representations 45 (Winter 1994): 117-44. (Refutes the perception of women as "humorless" through analysis of Rhys's ironic wit and double-edged comedy in 'Good Morning, Midnight.')
- Suárez, Isabel Carerra, and Esther Álvarez López. "Social and Personal Selves: Race, Gender and Otherness in Rhys's 'Let Them Call It Jazz' and 'Wide Sargasso Sea.'" Dutch Quarterly Review of Anglo-American Letters 20, No. 2 (1990): 154-62. (Finds "great parallelisms" in "the effects of a hostile social environment on the psychological evolution" of the central characters of the two works by Rhys.)
- Thompson, Irene. "The Left Bank Apéritifs of Jean Rhys and Ernest Hemingway." The Georgia Review XXXV, No. 1 (Spring 1981): 94-106. (Compares the Paris-based writing of contemporaries Rhys and Hemingway, including their separate relationships with Ford Madox Ford.)
- Tyler, Ralph. "Luckless Heroines, Swinish Men." The Atlantic 235, No. 1 (January 1975): 81-4. (A critical review of 'Tigers Are Better-Looking' that focuses on Rhys's obscurity and rediscovery.)
- Wilson, Lucy. "'Women Must Have Spunks': Jean Rhys's West Indian Outcasts." Modern Fiction Studies 32, No. 3 (Autumn 1986): 439-48. (Examines Rhys's social critique of racism and domination through analysis of black West Indian characters in her fiction, including Christophine Dubois in 'Wide Sargasso Sea' and Selina Davis in 'Let Them Call It Jazz.')
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