| Description |
xiv, 719 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Toward a feminist poetics 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 -- pt. 2. Inside the house of fiction: Jane Austen's tenants of possibility Shut up in prose: gender and genre in Austen's Juvenilia -- Jane Austen's cover story (and its secret agents) -- pt. 3. How are we fal'n?: Milton's daughters Milton's bogey: patriarchal poetry and women readers -- Horror's twin: Mary Shelley's monstrous eve -- Looking oppositely: Emily Brontë's bible of hell -- pt. 4. The spectral selves of Charlotte Brontë 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 -- pt. 5. Captivity and consciousness in George Eliot's fiction Made keen by loss: George Eliot's veiled vision -- George Eliot as the angel of destruction -- pt. 6. Strength in agony: nineteenth-century poetry by women The aesthetics of renunciation -- A woman -White: Emily Dickinson's yearn of Pearl |
| Summary |
Discusses the works of Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, and Emily Dickinson |
| Analysis |
English literature Women writers 1800-1900 |
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English literature Women writers, 1775-1886 - Critical studies |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886.
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Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Influence.
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English literature -- Psychological aspects.
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English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Fall of man in literature.
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Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Women authors -- Biography.
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Women authors -- Psychology.
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Women in literature.
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Literature -- history.
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Literature -- english
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Author |
Gubar, Susan, 1944- author
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| LC no. |
78020792 |
| ISBN |
0300022867 |
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0300025394 (paperback) |
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0300025963 (paperback) |
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