Gilbert and Gubar's The madwoman in the attic after thirty years

the long version

"When it was published in 1979, Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic: the Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination was hailed as a pathbreaking work of criticism, changing the way future scholars would read Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, the Brontes, George Eliot, and Emily Dickinson. This thirtieth-anniversary collection adds valuable reassessments and new readings and analyses inspired by Gilbert and Gubar's approach. it includes work by established and up-and-coming scholars, as well as retrospective accounts of the ways in which The Madwoman in the Attic has influenced teaching, feminist activism, and the lives of women in academia." --back cover.