The Madwoman in the Attic (Women’s Issues (Ready Reference series))
At a glance:
- Author: Sandra Ellen Mortola, Susan Gubar
- First Published: 1979
- Type of Work: Literary criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: Culture, Tradition, Gender roles, Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, Literature, Poetry or poets, Novelists, England or English people, Feminism, Women
The Work
In the preface to their book, Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar note that their study began with a course in literature by women that they had taught together at Indiana University in 1974. During that course, as they read the writings of women such as Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, and Sylvia Plath, they were surprised by recurring patterns in literature by women who produced their works independent of one another and who were also distanced from one another geographically, historically, and psychologically. Despite distances, these...
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Sandra M. Gilbert (Cyclopedia of World Authors)Sandra M. Gilbert (Identities and Issues)Susan Gubar (Cyclopedia of World Authors)Susan Gubar (Identities and Issues)
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