No Man's Land (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Sandra Ellen Mortola, Susan Gubar
- Type of Work: Literary criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Social issues
- Subjects: Culture, Sex or sexuality, Twentieth century, Gender roles, Authors or writers, Literature, Writing, Feminism, Women’s issues, Women, Criticism, World War I, Suffrage or voting rights, Letters, Women’s movement, Women’s rights, Career women, Victorian era or Victorianism
At the beginning of the long-awaited first volume of No Man's Land: Volume I, The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century, Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar describe the problems they faced in producing a sequel to The Madwoman in the Attic (1979), their path-breaking study of nineteenth century women writers. “Comical colleagues ... insisted that it would be hard to construct ’Daughter of Madwoman’ or ’Madwoman Meets Abbott and Costello’ (or even ’Madwoman Meets the Lost Generation’),” Gilbert and Gubar recall in their preface. Their colleagues...
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