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The Madwoman in the Attic

New Haven ; London: Yale University Press, 1984

0-300-02286-7

Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886
English literature - Women authors - History and criticism
English literature - 19th century - History and criticism
Women in literature
Women authors - Biography

Preface xi Part I. Toward a Feminist Poetics 1. The Queen’s Looking Glass: Female Creativity, Male Images of Women, and the Metaphor of Literary Paternity 3 2. Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety of Authorship 45 3. The Parables of the Cave 93 Part II. Inside the House of Fiction : Jane Austen’s Tenants of Possibility 4. Shut Up in Prose: Gender and Genre in Austen’s Juvenilia 107 5. Jane Austen’s Cover Story (and Its Secret Agents) 146 Part III. How Are We Fal’n?: Milton’s Daughters 6. Milton’s Bogey: Patriarchal Poetry and Women Readers 187 7. Horror’s Twin : Mary Shelley’s Monstrous Eve 213 8. Looking Oppositely : Emily Bronte’s Bible of Hell 248 Part IV. The Spectral Selves of Charlotte Bronte 9. A Secret, Inward Wound : The Professor’s Pupil 311 10. A Dialogue of Self and Soul: Plain Jane’s Progress 336 11. The Genesis of Hunger, According to Shirley 372 12. The Buried Life of Lucy Snowe 399 Part V. Captivity and Consciousness in George Eliot’s Fiction 13. Made Keen by Loss: George Eliot’s Veiled Vision 443 14. George Eliot as the Angel of Destruction 478 Part VI. Strength in Agony: Nineteenth-Century Poetry by Women 15. The Aesthetics of Renunciation 539 16. A Woman-White: Emily Dickinson’s Yarn of Pearl 581 Notes 651 Index 699