Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea - Literary Analysis & Essential Criticism Guide | Perfect for Book Clubs & English Literature Studies

Everyone else who reviewed this book concentrated on praising or disparaging "Wide Sargasso Sea" and not on this excellent sampler of serious literary criticism of "Wide Sargasso Sea." Editor Carl Plasa begins with three reviews from the novel's publication in 1966. He gives samples from the major schools of criticism that have passed in waves across Anglophone academia from the 1960s through the 1990s. If you want a good overview of why "Wide Sargasso Sea" is the only "Jane Eyre" knockoff regarded as real literature, this is a good place to start. Furthermore, when it was published in 2001, Carl Plasa was writing a book about Charlotte Brontë.