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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815274603321

Titolo

Gilbert & Gubar's The madwoman in the attic after thirty years / / edited with an introduction by Annette R. Federico ; foreword by Sandra M. Gilbert

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, c2009

ISBN

0-8262-7209-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xiii, 272 p

Altri autori (Persone)

FedericoAnnette <1960->

Disciplina

820.9/9287

Soggetti

English literature - Women authors - History and criticism

Women and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

"Bursting all the doors": The madwoman in the attic after thirty years / Annette R. Federico -- After Gilbert and Gubar: madwomen inspired by Madwoman / Susan Fraiman -- Modeling the madwoman: feminist movements and the academy / Marlene Tromp -- Gilbert and Gubar's daughters: The madwoman in the attic's spectre in Milton studies / Carol Blessing -- Feminism to ecofeminism: the legacy of Gilbert and Gubar's readings of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and The last man / Katey Castellano -- Enclosing fantasies: Jane Eyre / Madeleine Wood -- Jane Eyre's doubles? Colonial progress and the tradition of new woman writing in India / Narin Hassan -- Revisiting the attic: recognizing the shared spaces of Jane Eyre and Beloved / Danielle Russell -- The legacy of hell: Wuthering heights on film and Gilbert and Gubar's feminist poetics / Hila Shachar -- The veiled, the masked, and the civil war woman: Louisa May Alcott and the madwoman allegory / Keren Fite -- Sensationalizing women's writing: madwomen in attics, the sensational canon, and generic confinement / Tamara Silvia Wagner -- Ghosts in the attic: Gilbert and Gubar's The madwoman in the attic and the female gothic / Carol Margaret Davison -- Elizabeth Gaskell: a well-tempered madness / Thomas P. Fair -- Mimesis and poiesis: reflections on Gilbert and Gubar's reading of Emily Dickinson / Lucia Aiello.