The Madwoman in the Attic; The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination

by Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar

• ISBN13: 9780300084580
• ISBN10: 0300084587
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2000-07-11
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

This pathbreaking book of feminist 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".

Author Biography

Sandra M. Gilbert is professor of English at the University of California at Davis.

Table of Contents

Preface to the First Edition	xi
Introduction to the Second Edition: The Madwoman in the Academy	xv
Part I. Toward a Feminist Poetics
The Queen's Looking Glass: Female Creativity, Male Images of Women, and the Metaphor of Literary Paternity	3	(42)
Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety of Authorship	45	(48)
The Parables of the Cave	93	(14)
Part II. Inside the House of Fiction: Jane Austen's Tenants of Possibility
Shut Up in Prose: Gender and Genre in Austen's Juvenilia	107	(39)
Jane Austen's Cover Story (and Its Secret Agents)	146	(41)
Part III. How Are We Fal'n?: Milton's Daughters
Milton's Bogey: Partiarchal Poetry and Women Readers	187	(26)
Horror's Twin: Mary Shelley's Monstrous Eve	213	(35)
Looking Oppositely: Emily Bronte's Bible of Hell	248	(63)
Part IV. The Spectral Selves of Charlotte Bronte
A Secret, Inward Wound: The Professor's Pupil	311	(25)
A Dialogue of Self and Soul: Plain Jane's Progress	336	(36)
The Genesis of Hunger, According to Shirley	372	(27)
The Buried Life of Lucy Snowe	399	(44)
Part V. Captivity and Consciousness in George Eliot's Fiction
Made Keen by Loss: George Eliot's Veiled Vision	443	(35)
George Eliot as the Angel of Destruction	478	(61)
Part VI. Strength in Agony: Nineteenth-Century Poetry the Women
The Aesthetics of Renunciation	539	(42)
A Woman---White: Emily Dickinson's Yarn of Pearl	581	(70)
Notes	651	(48)
Index	699