An Analysis of Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar's the Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination

By Rebecca Pohl

Book Overview

The 1979 publication of Susan Gubar and Sandra M. Gilbert's ground-breaking study The Madwoman in the Attic marked a founding moment in feminist literary history as much as feminist literary theory. In their extensive study of nineteenth-century women's writing, Gubar and Gilbert offer radical re-readings of Jane Austen, the Bront s, Emily Dickinson, George Eliot and Mary Shelley tracing a distinctive female literary tradition and female literary aesthetic. Gubar and Gilbert raise questions about canonisation that continue to resonate today, and model the revolutionary importance of re-reading influential texts that may seem all too familiar

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1912453096
• ISBN13: 9781912453092
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Macat Library
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 7.7"