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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  - Deborah Biancotti - Goodreads

By far my favourite piece of criticism from my Uni days, Gilber & Gubar were full of radical suggestions. For example, their analysis of FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelley posed the question, 'why should a ... Read full review

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User Review  - Eddy Allen - Goodreads

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 ... Read full review

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Part V Captivity and Consciousness in George Eliots Fiction
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NineteenthCentury Poetry by Women
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Notes
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Index
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