Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar - The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination

Pros: A unique and still-necessary study of the female literary imagination c.1870

Cons: none

The Bottom Line: Like I said in the pros, but also read it for flawless pitch and energetic writing style.

Review: Authors Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar perhaps don't belong to but certainly visit that peculiar b ...

Pros: Considered by many to be a landmark piece of 70's feminist literature...

Cons: Raises questions of style and substance from a structuralist perspective...

The Bottom Line: This searing indictment of chauvinist traditions in modern literature does little to enhance the image of the female artist in America...

Review: Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar's The Madwoman In The Attic provides us with an interesting study of the use of signifiers and signified concepts in prosecuting their case for woman's liberation in modern culture. Yet if we examine this work ...