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The Madwoman in the Attic:

The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination
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Yale University Press, Jul 11, 2000 - History - 719 pages
This pathbreaking book of feminist criticism is now reissued with a substantial new introduction by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar that reveals the origins of their revolutionary realization in the 1970s that "the personal was the political, the sexual was the textual".

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

User Review  - Tori Kennedy - Goodreads

Not every chapter of this book is 4-star, but the several exhilarating and illuminating chapters this book contains are enough to overshadow the less persuasive readings the authors occasionally put forth. Read full review

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User Review  - J. Alfred - Goodreads

This tome of feminism is downright brilliant. In short, Gilbert and Gubar show that almost all the female authors of the 1800s have radical foils for their main characters which are, in a sense, their ... Read full review

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