Title Madness and sexual politics in the feminist novel : studies in Brontë, Woolf, Lessing, and Atwood / Barbara Hill Rigney.

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Description	148 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography	Bibliography: pages 137-141.
Note	Includes index.
Contents	"The frenzied moment": sex and sanity in Jane Eyre -- "The sane and the insane": psychosis and mysticism in Mrs. Dalloway -- "A rehearsal for madness": hysteria as sanity in The four-gated city -- "After the failure of logic": descent and return in Surfacing -- Self-created other: integration and survival.
Form	Also issued online.
Subject	English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
	English fiction -- Women authors.
	Atwood, Margaret, 1939- -- Criticism and interpretation.
	Atwood, Margaret, 1939-
	Criticism and interpretation.
	Feminist fiction, English -- History and criticism.
	Feminist fiction, English.
	Literature and mental illness -- English-speaking countries.
	Literature and mental illness.
	English-speaking countries.
	Feminism and literature -- English-speaking countries.
	Feminism and literature.
	Women and literature -- English-speaking countries.
	Women and literature.
	Mental illness in literature.
	Mental illness in literature.
	Mentally ill in literature.
	Mentally ill in literature.
	Sex role in literature.
	Sex role in literature.
Indexed Term	Fiction in English Women writers, 1837-1977. Special themes: Interrelationships of insanity & femininity - Critical studies
Other Form:	Online version: Rigney, Barbara Hill, 1938- Madness and sexual politics in the feminist novel. Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 1978 (OCoLC)561235110
ISBN	0299077101
	9780299077105
	0299077144
	9780299077143