The Madwoman in the Attic Questions and Answers
by Sandra Ellen Mortola, Susan Gubar

In The Madwoman in the Attic, Gilbert and Gubar explore 19th Century literature by women from a feminist perspective. The book is a lengthy text that examines many literary works and theories....

The Madwoman in the Attic by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar is considered a landmark in the history of feminist criticism of nineteenth-century women's writing. It takes its title from Bertha,...

These lines come from a poem called "The Other Side of a Mirror" by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge. In it, Coleridge challenges the prevailing standards of femininity against which she and all other...

The quotation in this question is quoting Anne Bradstreet. She lived from 1612 – 1672 in North America and she is known not only for being one of the first writers of North America, but even more...

In the relevant chapter of The Madwoman in the Attic, "The Parables of the Cave," Gilbert and Gubar put forward an explicitly feminist interpretation of Plato's parable of the cave as set out in...

In The Madwoman in the Attic, Gilbert and Gubar read Wuthering Heights as inverting masculine mythologies in general, especially the story of the Fall of Man. Their type of feminist criticism is...