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Book the madwoman in the attic. Published in 1979 this lengthy volume is now widely considered a foundational text of feminist literary criticism. Gilbert and gubar draw their title from charlotte brontë s jane eyre in which rochester s wife is kept secretly locked in an attic apartment by her husband. The madwoman in the attic the woman writer and the nineteenth century originally published in 1979 has long since become a classic one of the most important works of literary criticism of the 20th century. Gilbert and susan gubar argue for the existence of a distinctly female literary imagination in women writers of nineteenth century.

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Gilbert and susan gubar is a nonfiction scholarly text comprising 16 interconnected essays. The woman writer and the nineteenth century literary imagination by sandra gilbert and susan gubar was first published in 1979. The madwoman in the attic. The madwoman in the attic.

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