In The Madwoman in the Attic, Gilbert and Gubar analyse the works of women writers and focus on –
In 'The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination' (1979), Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar analyze how 19th-century women…
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In The Madwoman in the Attic, Gilbert and Gubar analyse the works of women writers and focus on –
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In 'The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination' (1979), Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar analyze how 19th-century women writers suffered from an 'anxiety of authorship' induced by the patriarchal assumption that literary creativity is exclusively male ('the pen as a metaphorical penis').
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