The Madwoman In The Attic Sandra Gilbert And Susan Gubar

The madwoman in the attic.

The madwoman in the attic sandra gilbert and susan gubar. See all formats and editions. The madwoman in the attic. Gilbert and susan gubar is a nonfiction scholarly text comprising 16 interconnected essays. The madwoman in the attic.

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. And susan gubar gilbert author 4 8 out of 5 stars 76 ratings. 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. Paperback january 1 1984.

The madwoman in the attic. Published in 1979 this lengthy volume is now widely considered a foundational text of feminist literary criticism. The woman writer and the nineteenth century literary imagination co authored by sandra m. It is considered a landmark of feminist.

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.