Gilbert & Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic After Thirty Years

by Federico, Annette R.; Gilbert, Sandra M.

• ISBN13: 9780826218698
• ISBN10: 0826218695
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-12-01
• Publisher: Univ of Missouri Pr

Summary

Published in 1979, Gilbert and Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic was hailed as a pathbreaking work of criticism. This thirtieth-anniversary collection adds both valuable reassessments and new readings and analyses. The authors take as their subjects specific nineteenth- and twentieth-century women writers, the state of feminist theory and pedagogy, genre studies, film, race, and postcolonialism, with approaches ranging from ecofeminism to psychoanalysis.

Table of Contents

Foreword: Conversions of the Mind	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction: "Bursting All the Doors": The Madwoman in the Attic after Thirty Years	p. 1
After Gilbert and Gubar: Madwomen Inspired by Madwoman	p. 27
Modeling the Madwoman: Feminist Movements and the Academy	p. 34
Gilbert and Gubar's Daughters: The Madwoman in the Attic's Spectre in Milton Studies	p. 60
Feminism to Ecofeminism: The Legacy of Gilbert and Gubar's Readings of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and The Last Man	p. 76
Enclosing Fantasies: Jane Eyre	p. 94
Jane Eyre's Doubles? Colonial Progress and the Tradition of New Woman Writing in India	p. 111
Revisiting the Attic: Recognizing the Shared Spaces of Jane Eyre and Beloved	p. 127
The Legacy of Hell: Wuthering Heights on Film and Gilbert and Gubar's Feminist Poetics	p. 149
The Veiled, the Masked, and the Civil War Woman: Louisa May Alcott and the Madwoman Allegory	p. 170
Sensationalizing Women's Writing: Madwomen in Attics, the Sensational Canon, and Generic Confinement	p. 183
Ghosts in the Attic: Gilbert and Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic and the Female Gothic	p. 203
Elizabeth Gaskell: A Well-Tempered Madness	p. 217
Mimesis and Poiesis: Reflections on Gilbert and Gubar's Reading of Emily Dickinson	p. 237
Contributors	p. 257
Index	p. 261
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