An Analysis Of Sandra M. Gilbert And Susan Gubar'S The Madwoman In The Attic Av Rebecca Pohl

<P>The 1979 publication of Susan Gubar and Sandra M. Gilbert¿s ground-breaking study <I>The Madwoman in the Attic </I>marked a founding moment in feminist literary history as much as feminist literary theory. In their extensive study of nineteenth-century women¿s writing, Gubar and Gilbert offer radical re-readings of Jane Austen, the Bront¿ Emily Dickinson, George Eliot and Mary Shelley tracing a distinctive female literary tradition and female literary aesthetic. Gubar and Gilbert raise questions about canonisation that continue to resonate today, and model the revolutionary importance of re-reading influential texts that may seem all too familiar</P>