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Praiseforthe first edition of THEMADWOMANINTHEATTIC:TheWomanWriterand theNineteenth-CenturyLiteraryImagination "Theauthorshaveanencyclopediccommandofliteratureandaparticularly generousrespectfortheircolleagues(andsome'precursors')infeministcrit icism.Theirsummaisdeeplyscholarlyb,utitisalsoelegantandvigorous.I cametoitexpectingtobestunnedbylearning;Ireaditinastateofsus tainedexcitementbecauseitofferedanewwayofseeing:' - FrancesTaliaferroH, arper's "It'sunlikelythatanyonereadingthismassiveb,rilliantlyarguedandradically reinterpretivestudyofJaneAustenM, aryShelleyE,milyandCharlotteBronte, GeorgeEliotandEmilyDickinson(amongothers)willeverseethesewriters quiteastheydidbefore:-'PublishersWeek!>, "ThankstoGilbertandGubar,wereturntothewritingofthesenineteenth centurywomenwithrenewedcuriosityw, ithintimationsofadiscernible femaleimagination:'-Valerie Miner,ChristianScienceMonitor "Having(thebook)athandislikehavingagoodfriendnearby.Sheisenor mouslywellread,sharp,visionaryinwhatsheseeswhenshereadsabook. Youlovetotalkwithher.Youthankherforwhatsheshowsyou;youalways comebacktoher;countonherinsights;andyoulikeherenormously:' -Louise BernikowM, s. "[GilbertandGubar]haveanimportantsubjecttoexplore.Theyareequipped ... withascholarlyknowledgeoftheperiod,includingitsobscurecorners FrankensteinA,uroraLeigh,MariaEdgeworthJ,aneAusten'sjuvenilia-and theyingeniouslybringinmythandfairytaletosupporttheirarguments.... Indeedtheydoopenupanewdimensionintheseworks,andonewillalways seethemdifferently-:' RosemaryDinnage,NewYorkReviewofBooks The Madwoman in the Attic The Madwoman in the Attic THE WOMAN WRITER AND THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERARY IMAGINATION SECOND EDITION SANDRA M. GILBERT and SU SAN GUBAR YALE NOTA BENE YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS NEW HAVEN AND LONDON Firstpublished asaYaleNota Bene book in 2000. Copyright ©1979byYaleUniversity. Copyright ©1984bySandra M.Gilbert and Susan Gubar. Introduction toSecond Edition copyright ©2000 bySandra M.Gilbert and Susan Gubar. Allrightsreserved. This book maynot be reproduced, inwhole or inpart, in anyform (beyond that copying permitted bySections 107and 108ofthe U.S.Copyright Lawand except byreviewers for the public press), without written permission from the publishers. Forinformation about this and other YaleUniversity Press publications, please contact: U.S.office [email protected] Europe office [email protected] Printed in the United States ofAmerica. Library ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Gilbert, Sandra M. The madwoman in the attic: the woman writer and the nineteenth-eentury literary imagination / Sandra M.Gilbert and Susan Gubar.-2nd. ed. p.cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN0-300-08458-7 1.English literature-Women authors-History and criticism. 2.English literature 19th century-History and criticism. 3.Women inliterature. 4.Women authors Psychology. 5.English literature-Psychological aspects. I.Gubar, Susan, 1944- II. Title. PR115.G52000 820.9'9287'09034-dc21 99-086038 Acatalogue record for this book isavailable from the British Library. Acknowledgment ismade tothe following for permission toreprint portions ofthis book, originally published in slightly different form: Feminist Studies, for "The Genesis of Hunger, according toShirley" (bySusan Gubar) and "Horror's Twin: MaryShelley's Monstrous Eve"(bySandra Gilbert). / Novel,for "SaneJane and the Critics" (bySusan Gubar) and "ARevisionary Company" (bySandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar). / PMLA,for "Patriarchal Poetry and Women Readers: Reflections on Milton's Bogey" (bySandra Gilbert). / Signs,for "PlainJane's Progress" (bySandra Gilbert) and "The Female Monster inAugustan Satire" (bySusan Gubar). / The CarnellReview,for portions of"Liber Scriptus: The Metaphor ofLiterary Paternity" (bySandra Gilbert). / Indiana University Press, forportions of"Introduction: Gender, Creativity, and the Woman Poet" (bySandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar) ,inGilbert and Gubar, ed., Shakespeare'sSisters:Feminist Essayson WomenPoets(Indiana University Press, 1979). Acknowledgment ismade for permission toquote from the following: Thomas H. Johnson, ed. ThePoemsofEmilyDickinson. Cambridge, Mass.:The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Copyright 1951, 1955bythe President and FellowsofHarvard College. Bypermission ofthe publishers and the Trustees ofAmherst College. / Thomas H.Johnson, ed. TheCompletePoemsofEmilyDickinson. Boston, Mass.:Little, Brown and Company. Copyright 1914,1935,1942 byMartha Dickinson Bianchi. Copyright 1929, ©1957,1963byMaryL.Hampson. Bypermission ofthe publishers. / Ruth Stone. Cheap. Copyright ©1975byRuth Stone. Bypermission ofHarcourt BraceJovanovich, Inc. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 This book isas much for Edward, Elliot, and Roger, as it is for Kathy, Molly, Sandra, Simone, Susan, and Susanna. The strife of thought, accusing and excusing, began afresh, and gathered fierceness. The soulofLilith lay naked tothe torture ofpure interpenetrating inward light. She began to moan, and sigh deep sighs, then murmur as if holding colloquy with a dividual self: her queendom was no longer whole; it was divided against itself.... At length she began what seemed a tale about herself, in a language so strange, and in forms so shadowy, that I could but here and there understand a little. -George MacDonald, Lilith It was not at first clear to me exactly what I was, except that I was someone who was being made to do certain things by someone else who was really the same person as myself-I have always called her Lilith. And yet the acts were mine, not Lilith's. -Laura Riding, "Eve's Side ofIt"
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