The madwoman in the attic
Gilbert, Sandra M.
The madwoman in the attic the woman writer and the nineteenth-century literary imagination / [electronic resource] : Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar. - 2nd ed. - Yale University Press, 2000. - 1 online resource (xlvi, 719 p.)
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 women 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.
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.
9780300186710 (electronic bk.) 0300186711 (electronic bk.)
English literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
Women and literature--History--Great Britain--19th century.
English literature--History and criticism.--19th century
English literature--Psychological aspects.
Women authors--Psychology.
Women in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Electronic books.
PR115
820.99287
The madwoman in the attic the woman writer and the nineteenth-century literary imagination / [electronic resource] : Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar. - 2nd ed. - Yale University Press, 2000. - 1 online resource (xlvi, 719 p.)
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 women 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.
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.
9780300186710 (electronic bk.) 0300186711 (electronic bk.)
English literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
Women and literature--History--Great Britain--19th century.
English literature--History and criticism.--19th century
English literature--Psychological aspects.
Women authors--Psychology.
Women in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Electronic books.
PR115
820.99287