| Description |
xiii, 272 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
"Bursting all the doors": The madwoman in the attic after thirty years / Annette R. Federico -- After Gilbert and Gubar: madwomen inspired by Madwoman / Susan Fraiman -- Modeling the madwoman: feminist movements and the academy / Marlene Tromp -- Gilbert and Gubar's daughters: The madwoman in the attic's spectre in Milton studies / Carol Blessing -- Feminism to ecofeminism: the legacy of Gilbert and Gubar's readings of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and The last man / Katey Castellano -- Enclosing fantasies: Jane Eyre / Madeleine Wood -- Jane Eyre's doubles? Colonial progress and the tradition of new woman writing in India / Narin Hassan -- Revisiting the attic: recognizing the shared spaces of Jane Eyre and Beloved / Danielle Russell -- The legacy of hell: Wuthering heights on film and Gilbert and Gubar's feminist poetics / Hila Shachar -- The veiled, the masked, and the civil war woman: Louisa May Alcott and the madwoman allegory / Keren Fite -- Sensationalizing women's writing: madwomen in attics, the sensational canon, and generic confinement / Tamara Silvia Wagner -- Ghosts in the attic: Gilbert and Gubar's The madwoman in the attic and the female gothic / Carol Margaret Davison -- Elizabeth Gaskell: a well-tempered madness / Thomas P. Fair -- Mimesis and poiesis: reflections on Gilbert and Gubar's reading of Emily Dickinson / Lucia Aiello. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Gilbert, Sandra M. Madwoman in the attic.
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English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- Women authors. |
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Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Women and literature. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Added Author |
Federico, Annette, 1960-
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| Added Title |
Gilbert and Gubar's The madwoman in the attic after thirty years |
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Madwoman in the attic after thirty years |
| ISBN |
9780826218698 cloth edition alkaline paper |
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0826218695 cloth edition alkaline paper |
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0826219276 |
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9780826219275 |
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