TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gilbert,Sandra M.
AU  - Gubar,Susan
TI  - The madwoman in the attic: the woman writer and the nineteenth-century literary imagination 
SN  - 9780300186710 (electronic bk.)
AV  - PR115 
U1  - 820.99287 22
PY  - 2000///
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - English literature
KW  - Women authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Women and literature
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Psychology
KW  - Women in literature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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