The Madwoman In The Attic Sandra Gilbert And Susan Gubar

The madwoman in the attic paperback january 1 1984.

The madwoman in the attic sandra gilbert and susan gubar.

Gilbert and susan gubar is a nonfiction scholarly text comprising 16 interconnected essays. The woman writer and the nineteenth century literary imagination is a 1979 book by sandra gilbert and susan gubar in which they examine victorian literature from a feminist perspective. Paperback january 1 1984. This book by gilbert and gubar was groundbreaking literary criticism when it was first published and paved the way for an explosion in feminist literary criticism that allowed much existing work to be re evaluated and enriched by what women had to say.

It is considered a landmark of feminist. See all formats and editions. The madwoman in the attic. The madwoman in the attic.

The madwoman in the attic. Gilbert and gubar draw their title from charlotte brontë s jane eyre in which rochester s wife is kept secretly locked in an attic apartment by her husband. English 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. And susan gubar gilbert author 4 8 out of 5 stars 76 ratings.

The woman writer and the nineteenth century literary imagination by sandra gilbert and susan gubar was first published in 1979.