The Madwoman in the Attic : the Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination

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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction to the Veritas Paperback Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- 1. The Queen's Looking Glass: Female Creativity, Male Images of Women, and the Metaphor of Literary Paternity -- 2. Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety of Authorship -- 3. The Parables of the Cave -- 4. Shut Up in Prose: Gender and Genre in Austen's Juvenilia -- 5. Jane Austen's Cover Story (and Its Secret Agents) -- 6. Milton's Bogey: Patriarchal Poetry and Women Readers -- 7. Horror's Twin: Mary Shelley's Monstrous Eve -- 8. Looking Oppositely: Emily Brontë's Bible of Hell -- 9. A Secret, Inward Wound: The Professor's Pupil -- 10. A Dialogue of Self and Soul: Plain Jane's Progress -- 11. The Genesis of Hunger, According to Shirley -- 12. The Buried Life of Lucy Snowe -- 13. Made Keen by Loss: George Eliot's Veiled Vision -- 14. George Eliot as the Angel of Destruction -- 15. The Aesthetics of Renunciation -- 16. A Woman -- White: Emily Dickinson's Yarn of Pearl -- Notes -- Index

The madwoman in the attic : the woman writer and the nineteenth-century literary imagination