| Description |
xiv, 719 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Toward a feminist poetics: Queen's looking glass: female creativity, male images of women, and the metaphor of literary paternity -- Infection in the sentence: the woman writer and the anxiety of authorship -- Parables of the cave -- pt. 2. Inside the house of fiction: Jane Austen's tenants of possibility: Shut up in prose: gender and genre in Austen's Juvenilia -- Jane Austen's cover story (and its secret agents) -- pt. 3. How are we fal'n?: Milton's daughters: Milton's bogey: patriarchal poetry and women readers -- Horror's twin: Mary Shelley's monstrous eve -- Looking oppositely: Emily Brontë's bible of hell -- pt. 4. Spectral selves of Charlotte Brontë: A secret, inward wound: The professor's pupil -- A dialogue of self and soul: plain Jane's progress -- Genesis of hunger: according to Shirley -- Buried life of Lucy Snowe -- pt. 5. Captivity and consciousness in George Eliot's fiction: Made keen by loss: George Eliot's veiled vision -- George Eliot as the angel of destruction -- pt. 6. Strength in agony: nineteenth-century poetry by women: Aesthetics of renunciation -- A woman - White: Emily Dickinson's yarn of Pearl. |
| Provenance |
Copy 2 is the gift of Ludmila Kapschutschenko-Schmitt Memorial Collection |
| Subject |
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 |
| Subject |
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
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English literature -- Psychological aspects.
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English literature -- Psychological aspects. |
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Women authors -- Psychology.
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Women authors -- Psychology. |
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Women authors. |
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Women in literature.
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Women in literature. |
| Indexed Term |
English literature Women writers, 1775-1886 - Critical studies |
| Subject |
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886.
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Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. |
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Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Influence.
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Milton, John, 1608-1674. |
| Added Author |
Gubar, Susan, 1944-
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| ISBN |
0300022867 |
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9780300022865 |
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0300025394 (paperback) |
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9780300025392 (paperback) |
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