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Review: The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary ImaginationUser Review - Deborah Biancotti - GoodreadsBy 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 Review: The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary ImaginationUser Review - Eddy Allen - GoodreadsThis 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 Related books
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