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The madwoman in the attic, the woman writer and the nineteenth-century literary imagination, Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar

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The madwoman in the attic, the woman writer and the nineteenth-century literary imagination, Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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contains biographical information

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illustrations

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The madwoman in the attic

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electronic resource eBook

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Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar

Sub title

the woman writer and the nineteenth-century literary imagination

Summary

In this work the authors explore the works of many 19th-century women writers. They chart a tangible desire expressed for freedom from the restraints of a confining patriarchal society and trace a distinctive female literary tradition

Table Of Contents

pt. I. Toward a feminist poetics -- pt. II. Inside the house of fiction : Jane Austen's tenants of possibility -- pt. III. How are we Fal'n? : Milton's daughters -- pt. IV. The spectral selves of Charlotte Brontë -- pt. V. Captivity and consciousness in George Eliot's fiction -- pt. VI. Strength in agony : nineteenth-century poetry by women

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