Madwoman In The Attic Author

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Madwoman in the attic author.

The woman writer and the nineteenth century literary imagination is a 1979 book by sandra gilbert and susan gubar in which they examine victorian literature from a feminist perspective. The woman writer and the nineteenth century literacy imagination by susan gubar sandra m. The madwoman in the attic. 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.

The woman writer and the nineteenth century literary imagination yale nota bene s 8601300184418. Gilbert sandra m gubar susan. On the title page i wrote my name and the. An analysis of victorial women writers this pathbreaking book of feminist literary criticism is now reissued with a substantial new introduction by sandra gilbert and susan gubar that reveals the origins of their revolutionary realization in the 1970s that the personal was the political the sexual was the textual the classic argument for a women s literary tradition scott heller.

The back cover is hanging on courtesy of bubbled scotch tape. Gilbert and gubar draw their title from charlotte brontë s jane eyre in which rochester s wife née bertha mason is kept secretly locked in an attic apartment by her husband.