A selective list of literary criticism for the British-Dominican novelist, short-story writer, and autobiographer, Jean Rhys, including signed articles by recognized scholars, peer and editor reviewed articles, and web sites that follow MLA guidelines for web pages.
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Barnes, Fiona R. Barnes discusses two scholarly books on Jean Rhys: Jean Rhys's Historical Imagination: Reading and Writing the Creole by Veronica Marie Gregg; and Snow on the Cane Fields: Women's Writing and Creole Subjectivity by Judith L. Raiskin. First page of article only. In Signs, Vol. 23, No. 2 (Winter, 1998), pp. 513-516
Ciolkowski, Laura E. "Navigating the 'Wide Sargasso Sea': colonial history, English fiction, and British empire." In Twentieth Century Literature, Fall, 1997
Czarnecki, Kristin. "Jean Rhys's postmodern narrative authority: Selina's patois in 'Let Them Call It Jazz.'" College Literature, 22-MAR-08
Hass, Martha. "Reading Jean Rhys," an essay on Good Morning Midnight, in Context, from the Center for Book Culture
Hulme, Peter. An introduction to Jean Rhys, from the Literary Encyclopedia, 21 January 2001 On Voyage in the Dark (1934); Wide Sargasso Sea (1966); Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography (1979)
Linett, Maren. "'New words, new everything': fragmentation and trauma in Jean Rhys." Twentieth Century Literature, Winter, 2005
Maurel, Sylvie. A review of Maurel's Jean Rhys ( St. Martin's Press, 1998). Reviewed in College Literature, Fall 2000 by Stouck, Jordan
Nardin, Jane. "'As Soon As I Sober Up I Start Again': Alcohol and the Will in Jean Rhys's Pre-War Novels." Papers on Language and Literature, Winter 2006
Nesbitt, Jennifer Poulos. "Rum Histories: Decolonizing the Narratives of Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea and Sylvia Townsend Warner's The Flint Anchor." [Wide Sargasso Sea, Warner, Sylvia Townsend, Flint Anchor, White Women in literature, Rum in literature]. Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 26, 2 (Fall 2007)
Thomas, Sue. "Adulterous liaisons: Jean Rhys, Stella Bowen and feminist reading." In Australian Humanities Review, June 2001
Thomas, Sue "Rajni Walia, Women and Self: Fictions of Jean Rhys, Barbara Pym, Anita Brookner." In Quodlibet: The Australian Journal of Trans-national Writing. Volume 1, March 2005
Zimring, Rishona. "The make-up of Jean Rhys's fiction." In Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Spring 2000
(taken offline) Short essays and discussion questions for Wide Sargasso Sea, from George Landow's Literature of the Caribbean web site
Brief biography of Jean Rhys from the Imperial Archive Project
An essay on Jean Rhys discusses her meaning to the people of Dominica, by Thomson Fontaine on The Dominican Net
Discussion questions for Wide Sargasso Sea and a brief bio of Jean Rhys, from the textbook publisher Norton
A brief introduction to Jean Rhys from publisher Penguin
"Charlotte Bronte and Jean Rhys: The representation of the doubleness of selfhood in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea," by Liz Lewis. An introductory essay on the authors from the London School of Journalism English Literature Distance Learning Course
see also Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre
Web site for Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature: A scholarly journal devoted to the study of women's literature of all periods and nationalities [Feminist and Women's Studies]
Journal of Caribbean Literature special Jean Rhys issue, table of contents only
A web site examines Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, and Jean Rhys's "rewriting" of Jane Eyre in Wide Sargasso Sea as a form of resistance to the colonial project. Site is a project of MA students at Queen's University, Belfast
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