THE MADWOMAN IN THE ATTIC

"LITERARY CRITICISM/WOMEN'S STUDIES From reviews of the first edition: ""Imperative reading."" CAROLYN G. HEILBURN Washington Post Book World king * A masterpiece."" CAROLYN SEX Los Angeles Times Book Review ist DW sew *The classic argument for a women's literary tradition."" SCOTT HELLER Chronicle of Higher Education by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar offer a bold new interpretation of the great nineteenth-century women novelists, and in doing so they present the first persuasive case for the existence of a distinctly female imagination.... The authors force us to take a new look at the grandes dames of English literature, and the result is that they will never seem quite the same again." LE ANNE SCHREIBER New York Times Book Review Finalist for the 1980 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction and the 1979 National Book Critics Circle Award in Literature.