Jean Rhys's Literary Relations (original) (raw)

Wide Sargasso Sea and Jane Eyre

• Jean Rhys on Brontë and Bertha Mason
• The Relationship between Jane Eyre and Bertha (Antoinette Cosway)
  • The Fated Modernist Heroine: Female Protagonists in both books
  • The Experience of Womanhood inJane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea
  • Antoinette's Life at the Convent and Jane's at Lowood
• Grace Poole in both novels (needed)
• Rochester in both novels
  • Rochester as the new type of colonizer
  • Contrasting Conversations with Rochester
  • Rochester's illness
• Style and setting in both novels
  • The basic imagined worlds of both books compared
  • Painting with Words: Natural and Spiritual Landscapes in Wide Sargasso Sea and Jane Eyre
• Symbol, Image, and Motif
  • Dreams
  • The Role of Beauty in Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea and Jane Eyre
  • Home on the Range: Confinement and Freedom in Wide Sargasso Sea and Jane Eyre
• Victorian and Modern Endings: Wide Sargasso Sea and the blossoming of hate
• Keeping Jane Eyre Intact

Twentieth-Century Authors

• Rhys, Ford Madox Ford, and literary modernism
• The Rise, fall, and rise of Rhys's literary reputatian (needed)

Other Rewritings of Jane Eyre

• Japser Fforde's The Eyre Affair

Last modified 15 February 2010