The madwoman in the attic : [electronic resource] the woman writer and the nineteenth-century literary imagination / Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1. Toward a feminist poetics: The queen's looking glass: female creativity, male images of women, and the metaphor of literary paternity -- Infection in the sentence: the woman writer and the anxiety of authorship -- The parables of the cave -- pt. 2. Inside the house of fiction: Jane Austen's tenants of possibility: Shut up in prose: gender and genre in Austen's Juvenilia -- Jane Austen's cover story (and its secret agents) -- pt. 3. How are we fal'n?: Milton's daughters: Milton's bogey: patriarchal poetry and women readers -- Horror's twin: Mary Shelley's monstrous eve -- Looking oppositely: Emily Brontë's bible of hell -- pt. 4. The spectral selves of Charlotte Brontë: A secret, inward wound: The professor's pupil -- A dialogue of self and soul: plain Jane's progress -- The genesis of hunger: according to Shirley -- The buried life of Lucy Snowe -- pt. 5. Captivity and consciousness in George Eliot's fiction: Made keen by loss: George Eliot's veiled vision -- George Eliot as the angel of destruction -- pt. 6. Strength in agony: nineteenth-century poetry by women: The aesthetics of renunciation -- A woman -White: Emily Dickinson's yearn of Pearl.