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The Madwoman in the Attic

Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar

Gilbert and Gubar trace how images of angels and monsters shape women writers’ struggles for literary authority in Austen, Shelley, the Brontës, Eliot, and Dickinson.

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16 parts, about 34 minutes to read.

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Author
Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar
Parts
16 parts
Reading time
about 34 minutes
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What the summary covers

  1. The Queen’s Looking Glass2 min
  2. Infection in the Sentence2 min
  3. The Parables of the Cave2 min
  4. Shut Up in Prose2 min
  5. Jane Austen’s Cover Story2 min
  6. Milton’s Bogey2 min
  7. Horror’s Twin2 min
  8. Looking Oppositely2 min
  9. A Secret, Inward Wound2 min
  10. A Dialogue of Self and Soul2 min
  11. The Genesis of Hunger According to Shirley2 min
  12. The Buried Life of Lucy Snowe2 min
  13. Made Keen by Loss2 min
  14. George Eliot as the Angel of Destruction3 min
  15. The Aesthetics of Renunciation2 min
  16. Emily Dickinson’s Yarn of Pearl3 min

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