Analysis of Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic

The 1979 publication of Susan Gubar and Sandra M. Gilbert’s ground-breaking study The Madwoman in the Attic 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 Brontës Emily Dickinson George Eliot and Mary Shelley tracing a distinctive female literary tradition and female literary aesthetic. Gubar and Gilbert raise questions about ca...See More