Title The Madwoman in the Attic : the Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination / Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar

Published New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2020] ©2020

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Description 1 online resource (784 pages) Series Veritas Paperbacks Ser Veritas Paperbacks Ser Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction to the Veritas Paperback Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- 1. The Queen's Looking Glass: Female Creativity, Male Images of Women, and the Metaphor of Literary Paternity -- 2. Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety of Authorship -- 3. The Parables of the Cave -- 4. Shut Up in Prose: Gender and Genre in Austen's Juvenilia -- 5. Jane Austen's Cover Story (and Its Secret Agents) -- 6. Milton's Bogey: Patriarchal Poetry and Women Readers -- 7. Horror's Twin: Mary Shelley's Monstrous Eve -- 8. Looking Oppositely: Emily Brontë's Bible of Hell -- 9. A Secret, Inward Wound: The Professor's Pupil -- 10. A Dialogue of Self and Soul: Plain Jane's Progress -- 11. The Genesis of Hunger, According to Shirley -- 12. The Buried Life of Lucy Snowe -- 13. Made Keen by Loss: George Eliot's Veiled Vision -- 14. George Eliot as the Angel of Destruction -- 15. The Aesthetics of Renunciation -- 16. A Woman -- White: Emily Dickinson's Yarn of Pearl -- Notes -- Index Summary "A feminist classic."--Judith Shulevitz, New York Times Book Review"A pivotal book, one of those after which we will never think the same again."--Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Washington Post Book World 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 Notes In English Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mai 2020) Subject English literature -- Psychological aspects. English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Women authors -- Psychology Women in literature. HISTORY -- General. English literature. English literature -- Psychological aspects. English literature -- Women authors. Women and literature. Women authors -- Psychology. Women in literature. Englisch Frauenliteratur Roman. Romanschriftstellerin Literatura inglesa (história e crítica) Mulheres (aspectos psicológicos) Roman. Great Britain. Englisch. Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. Form Electronic book Author Appignanesi, Lisa. Gubar, Susan, author ISBN 9780300252972 0300252978

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