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.

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. The madwoman in the attic paperback january 1 1984. Paperback january 1 1984. 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.

See all formats and editions. 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. Published in 1979 this lengthy volume is now widely considered a foundational text of feminist literary criticism. The madwoman in the attic.

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

It is considered a landmark of feminist.