Jean Rhys

While providing close readings of the texts and of their language Sylvie Maurel examines Jean Rhys''s writings through the frames of feminist criticism and literary theory. She explores the various forms of feminine dissent at work in Rhys''s fiction and Rhys is shown to develop an ethics of subversion through resistance to closure irony parody and her daring rewriting of Jane Eyre . Each novel is treated as an aesthetic whole with substantial reference to Rhys''s short stories for a more penetrating insight into her fictional universe.