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

'Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar offer a bold new interpretation of the great 19th century women novelists, and in doing so they present the first persuasive case for the existence of a distinctly female imagination. Like gnostic heretics who claim to have found the secret code that unlocks the mysteries in old texts, the authors force us to take anew look at the grandes dames of English literature, and the result is that they will never seem quite the same again.' -Le Anne Schreiber, The New York Times Book ReviewProfessor Susan Gubar is the author of 'The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination', published 1980 under ISBN 9780300025965 and ISBN 0300025963.