Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth Century Literary Imagination
By: Sandra M Gilbert and Susan Gubar
Contributor(s): GILBERT (Sandra M) | GUBAR (Susan)Material type: 
TextLanguage: English Publisher: Delhi Worldview Publications 2007Edition: 2Description: 719 p. PB 22x14 cmISBN: 9788186423842Subject(s): Woman | Women and literature | 19th century | History and criticismDDC classification: 820.9 Summary: An analysis of Victorian women writers, this pathbreaking book of feminist literary 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."
"The classic argument for a women’s literary tradition."―Scott Heller, Chronicle of Higher Education
"The Madwoman in the Attic, The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century, originally published in 1979, has long since become a classic, one of the most important works of literary criticism of the 20th century. This new edition contains an introduction titled 'The Madwoman in the Academy' that is, quite simply, a delight to read, warmly witty, provocative, informative and illuminating."―Joyce Carol Oates, Princeton University
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An analysis of Victorian women writers, this pathbreaking book of feminist literary 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."
"The classic argument for a women’s literary tradition."―Scott Heller, Chronicle of Higher Education
"The Madwoman in the Attic, The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century, originally published in 1979, has long since become a classic, one of the most important works of literary criticism of the 20th century. This new edition contains an introduction titled 'The Madwoman in the Academy' that is, quite simply, a delight to read, warmly witty, provocative, informative and illuminating."―Joyce Carol Oates, Princeton University
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