Sandra Gilbert, Susan Gubar: "The Madwoman in the Attic : The Woman Writer and
the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination" - z braku czasu i zalewu
pilniejszych lektur obowiazkowych, czytam ja sobie od dwoch miesiecy po kawalku
do poduszki. Swietna ksiazka, nie tylko dla literaturoznawcow - bardzo
przystepnie i ciekawie napisana analiza dziel slynnych angielskich
dziewietnastowiecznych pisarek: Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Charlotte i Emily
Brontë, George Eliot, Emily Dickinson.
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The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary
Imagination, published in 1979, examines Victorian literature from a feminist
perspective. Authors Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar draw their title from
Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, in which Rochester's mad wife Bertha stays locked
in the attic.
The text specifically examines Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Charlotte and Emily
Brontë, George Eliot, and Emily Dickinson.
Gilbert and Gubar examine the notion that women writers of the 19th Century were
essentially "madwomen" because of the restrictive gender categories enforced
upon them both privately and professionally. In their re-examination of these
writers, they argue that madness often became a metaphor for suppressed female
revolt and anger. They write that the madwoman "is usually in some sense that
author's double, an image of her own anxiety and rage." Gilbert and Gubar argue
against many popular, explicitly phallocentric literary theories popular at the
time. They especially argue against conservative literary critic Harold Bloom's
theory of Oedipal poetics, proclaiming that the relationship he describes does
not hold true for female authors.
Over 700 pages long, the work is a landmark in feminist literary criticism.
While some would argue that it has become outdated, or that the metaphoric
framework outlined by Gilbert and Gubar is decidedly limiting, it nonetheless
remains an important and still influential, if not foundational feminist work.
Originally published in 1979, the book is now in its second edition (2000), the
first from Yale University and second from Yale Nota Bene press.
Gilbert and Gubar continue to write criticism together, examining Shakespeare
and Modernist writing, among other topics.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Madwoman_in_the_Attic
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