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Benstock)DOROTHY RICHARDSONULYSSES:FIFTY YEARS  \nAPPROACHES TO ULYSSES:TEN ESSAYS(editor,withBernard Benstock)  \nTHE SHAPELESS GOD:ESSAYS ON THE MODERNNOVELITALO SVEVO:ESSAYS ON HIS WORK(editor)JAMES JOYCE’S PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST  \n# JEAN RHYSA Critical Study\n\nThomas F.Staley  \nC Thomas F.Staley 1979Softcover reprint of the hardcover ist edition 1979All rights reserved.No part of this publication may bereproduced or transmitted,in any form or by any means,without permission  \nFirst published 1979 byTHE MACMILLAN PRESS LTDLondon and BasingstokeAssociated companies in DelhiDublin Hong Kong Johannesburg LagosMelbourne New York Singapore Tokyo  \nBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication Data  \nStaley,Thomas F.Jean Rhys  \nI.Rhys,Jean-Criticism and interpretation823'.9'12PR6035.H6Z/  \nISBN 978-1-349-04080-3 ISBN 978-1-349-04078-0(eBook)  \nDOI 10.107/978-1-349-04078-0  \n8   7   6  5  4   3  20201  009998  9796  \nTo Mary McNulty Staley  \nContents  \nPreface  \n这  \nAcknowledgementsI Art and experienceI2 The Left Bank203 Quartet354 Afier Leaving Mr Mackenzie and Voyage in the Dark55s Good Morning,Midnight846 Wide Sargasso SeaI007 The Later WritingI2INotesI32Selected BibliographyI36IndexI39  \n## Preface\n\nThe curious literary career of Jean Rhys has been touched uponfrequently by the popular press and weekly reviews.The discoveryand rediscovery of lost'writers and new-found reputations isjudgednewsworthy,for stories such as hers confirm the collective mytho-logies of the struggling figure of the writer in the modern world,andthus feature articles with full picture spreads appear in the coloursupplements of the Sunday Times and the Observer.The high and lowpoints of her bizarre life and career have been recorded andmisrecorded by nearly a dozen interviewers.In England,she becamefor a brief time a minor cult figure,posing for fashion shots in themass media;in America,she has been featured in 'W’,the chicproduction of Women's Wear Daily,and Ms.1 Lurking behind theseposes of a woman in her mid-eighties commenting on clothes and herown painful hegira from the West Indies,to the provincial towns ofEngland,half a dozen European capitals,and finally to a remotecottage in Devon,is the novelist who struggled off and on for yearswith her art against devastating disappointments and what seemedcertain failure.These colour photographic portraits bring home tome Susan Sontag's accusation that there is something predatory inphotography—the subject is somehow violated.Even with successand great age,Rhys has not escaped the image of her own fictionalheroines.  \nOnly after Wide Sargasso Sea was published in 1966,when she wasseventy-two,and won the Smith Literary Award,did any substantialliterary recognition come to her.Its success resulted in the re-publication of all of her novels by Andre Deutsch,and,later,thereprinting of them by Penguin,which broadened her reputation andenhanced critical acclaim to the point that A.Alvarez in the New YorkTimes Book Review called her,quite simply,'the best living Englishnovelist'.The background of this belated attention is interesting initself,especially in the light of the increasingly serious study of thenature of the feminine consciousness as it expresses itself in literatureand of women novelists generally,but a detailed account of her life  \n## Preface\n\nand literary reputation is not the primary task to which I have setmyself.  \nI wrote this book with the idea that it would be the first full-lengthstudy of Jean Rhys and her work to be published.Such a prospect hasobvious advantages and disadvantages.I saw it as an advantage,but Iam well aware that Rhys is a writer of such enduring quality that thisstudy is only a beginning.My aim,then,is to offer the first lines of acritical dialogue and trace with some depth her achievement.Withthis purpose in mind,I hav","cbCaivVrMNxq36rY","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaivVrMNxq36rY","pdf",15683722,151,"English","# Preface\n# Contents\n## Art 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