The Madwoman in the Attic : the Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Gilbert, Sandra M. (Author), Gubar, Susan (Author)
Other Authors: Appignanesi, Lisa
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2020]
Series:Veritas Paperbacks Ser.
Subjects:
1800-1899
English literature > Psychological aspects.
English literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Women authors > Psychology.
Women in literature.
Écrits de femmes anglais > Histoire et critique.
Littérature anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Femmes et littérature > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Écrivaines > Psychologie.
Femmes dans la littérature.
HISTORY > General.
English literature.
English literature > Women authors.
Women and literature.
Englisch
Frauenliteratur
Roman.
Romanschriftstellerin
Literatura inglesa (história e crítica)
Mulheres (aspectos psicológicos)
Great Britain.
Englisch.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction to the Veritas Paperback Edition
  • Preface to the First Edition
  • 1. The Queen's Looking Glass: Female Creativity, Male Images of Women, and the Metaphor of Literary Paternity
  • 2. Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety of Authorship
  • 3. The Parables of the Cave
  • 4. Shut Up in Prose: Gender and Genre in Austen's Juvenilia
  • 5. Jane Austen's Cover Story (and Its Secret Agents)
  • 6. Milton's Bogey: Patriarchal Poetry and Women Readers
  • 7. Horror's Twin: Mary Shelley's Monstrous Eve
  • 8. Looking Oppositely: Emily Brontë's Bible of Hell
  • 9. A Secret, Inward Wound: The Professor's Pupil
  • 10. A Dialogue of Self and Soul: Plain Jane's Progress
  • 11. The Genesis of Hunger, According to Shirley
  • 12. The Buried Life of Lucy Snowe
  • 13. Made Keen by Loss: George Eliot's Veiled Vision
  • 14. George Eliot as the Angel of Destruction
  • 15. The Aesthetics of Renunciation
  • 16. A Woman
  • White: Emily Dickinson's Yarn of Pearl
  • Notes
  • Index

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