The Madwoman In The Attic by Sandra M. Gilbert
The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination
An influential feminist study that reads nineteenth-century women’s literature against the grain, arguing that the recurring figure of the “madwoman” embodies the repressed rage, split self, and creative constraint imposed by a patriarchal literary tradition; by contrasting the sentimentalized “angel” ideal with the rebellious “monster,” the book traces how canonical women writers deploy madness, confinement, irony and double-voiced narration to negotiate authorial voice, resist restrictive gender norms, and transform personal frustration into imaginative protest, reshaping notions of female subjectivity and literary history.
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- Published
- 1979
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- American
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- English
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