Madwoman in the attic : the woman writer and the nineteenth century literary imagination /
By: Gilbert, Sandra M.
Contributor(s): Gubar, Susan
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Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2000Edition: 2nd edition.Description: xlvi, 719 pages ; 20 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780300084580; 9780300084580:.Subject(s): English literature![](/opac-tmpl/bootstrap/images/filefind.png)
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Bibliographic references (page 651-698) and index.
Preface to the first edition -- Introduction to the second edition : The madwoman in the academy -- 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) -- Miton's bogey : patriarchal poetry and women readers -- Horror's twin : Mary Shelley's monstrous Eve -- Looking oppositely : Emily Bronte'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 -- Notes -- Index.
In this work the authors explore the works of many 19th-century women writers. They chart a tangible desire expressed for freedom from the restraints of a confining patriarchal society and trace a distinctive female literary tradition.