Showing papers by "Sandra M. Gilbert published in 1984"

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

Abstract: In this work of feminist literary criticism the authors explore the works of many major 19th-century women writers. They chart a tangible desire expressed for freedom from the restraints of a confining patriarchal society and trace a distinctive female literary tradition.

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

Abstract: I am like the needy knife-grinder — I have no story to tell. — Maria Edgeworth I dwell in Possibility — A fairer House than Prose — More numerous of Windows — Superior — for Doors — Emily Dickinson ... the modes of fainting should be all as different as possible and may be made very diverting. — The Girls’ Book of Diversions (ca. (1840) From Sappho to myself, consider the fate of women. How unwomanly to discuss it! — Carolyn Kizer

From Patria to Matria: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Risorgimento

Abstract: Though some Victorian readers believed that Elizabeth Barrett Browning's partisanship for "the cause of Italy" led to a failure of inspiration, I argue that for a complex of reasons Italy became th...