Sandra M. Gilbert
Autore di The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination
Sull'Autore
A poet, feminist critic, and professor of English at the University of California at Davis, Gilbert received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1968. Her early work addressed canonical male figures, but in the 1970s she began to focus on women writers from a feminist perspective, teaming up with mostra altro Susan Gubar in what has proven to be a very influential collaboration. In 1979 they published their first joint efforts, a collection of feminist essays on women poets, Shakespeare's Sisters, and The Madwoman in the Attic, an exploration of major nineteenth-century women writers, which has had a major role in defining feminist scholarship. This massive volume takes its title from Jane Eyre's "mad" and monstrous double, Bertha, hidden away in the attic by Jane's would-be lover, Rochester; Gilbert and Gubar see figures like Bertha as resisting patriarchy, subversive surrogates for the docile heroines who populate nineteenth-century fiction by women. Although Gilbert and Gubar's ideas have been very influential, many critics, particularly poststructuralists, have taken issue with them. For Gilbert and Gubar, a woman writer is by definition angry, and her text will express that anger, albeit in disguised or distorted form. Reading hinges on knowing the sex of the author, rather than on a careful analysis of the text itself and the multivalency of its language. Gilbert and Gubar's work is part of a debate about essentialist and antiessentialist feminist theories, which has addressed issues like "the signature" (the significance of knowledge about the author and authorial intentions) and gendered expression in general. (Bowker Author Biography) Sandra M. Gilbert's most recent poetry collection is "Blood Pressure". She teaches at the University of California, Davis. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di Sandra M. Gilbert
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (1979) 1,345 copie
The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Tradition in English (1985) — A cura di — 849 copie
No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century, Volume 1: The War of the Words (1987) 100 copie
No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century, Volume 2: Sexchanges (1989) 95 copie
No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century, Volume 3: Letters from the Front (1714) 41 copie
Opere correlate
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 919 copie
Don't Bet on the Prince: Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales in North America and England (1987) — Collaboratore — 483 copie
Una Storia Segreta : The Secret History of Italian American Evacuation and Internment During World War II (2001) — Prefazione — 43 copie
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- Data di nascita
- 1936-12-27
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- New York, New York, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- New York, New York, USA
Berkeley, California, USA
Paris, France - Istruzione
- Cornell University (BA, 1957)
New York University (MA, 1961)
Columbia University (PhD, 1968) - Attività lavorative
- literary critic
poet
essayist
professor - Relazioni
- Gilbert, Elliot Lewis (spouse)
Gale, David (partner)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 43
- Opere correlate
- 23
- Utenti
- 3,120
- Popolarità
- #8,191
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 12
- ISBN
- 79
- Lingue
- 1
- Preferito da
- 3
Try to read this book as if it's the first or at most second piece of feminist criticism you've ever read. Imagine Austen & the Brontes and Dickinson constantly trivialized and George Eliot lauded for her masculine writing in everything you've seen before. Try to think about Bertha Rochester's life as completely unproblematic. Then read this book and you'll get a sense of what we felt.… (altro)