The madwoman in the attic : the woman writer and the nineteenth-century literary imagination / Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar ; with an introduction by Lisa Appignanesi.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Yale University Press, 2020Edition: Veritas paperback editionDescription: xx, 719 pages ; 20 cmISBN:- 9780300246728
- 9780300246728
- 1800-1899
- Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- English literature -- Psychological aspects
- Women in literature
- English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
- English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Women authors -- Psychology
- Women and literature
- English literature
- English literature -- Psychological aspects
- English literature -- Women authors
- Women authors -- Psychology
- Women in literature
- Great Britain
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- 820.99287 23
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"A Veritas paperback".
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Queen's looking glass: female creativity, male images of women, and the metaphor of literary paternity -- Infection in the sentence: the woman writer and the anxiety of authorship -- The parables of the cave -- Shut up in prose: gender and genre in Austen's Juvenilia -- Jane Austen's cover story (and its secret agents) -- Milton's bogey: patriarchal poetry and women readers -- Horror's twin: Mary Shelley's monstrous Eve -- Looking oppositely: Emily Brontë's bible of hell -- A secret, inward wound: The professor's pupil -- A dialogue of self and soul: plain Jane's progress -- The genesis of hunger, according to Shirley -- The buried life of Lucy Snowe -- Made keen by loss: George Eliot's veiled vision -- George Eliot as the angel of destruction -- The aesthetics of renunciation -- A woman, white: Emily Dickinson's yarn of pearl.
A pathbreaking book of literary criticism is now reissued with a new introduction by Lisa Appignanesi that speaks to how The Madwoman in the Attic set the groundwork for subsequent generations of scholars writing about women writers, and why the book still feels fresh some four decades later.
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