Gilbert and Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic after Thirty Years

Contents

Contents Foreword: Conversions of the Mind ! Sandra M. Gilbert Acknowledgments Introduction: “Bursting All the Doors”: The Madwoman in the Attic after Thirty Years ! Annette R. Federico 1. After Gilbert and Gubar: Madwomen Inspired by Madwoman ! Susan Fraiman 2. Modeling the Madwoman: Feminist Movements and the Academy ! Marlene Tromp 3. Gilbert and Gubar’s Daughters: The Madwoman in the Attic’s Spectre in Milton Studies ! Carol Blessing 4. Feminism to Ecofeminism: The Legacy of Gilbert and Gubar’s Readings of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and The Last Man ! Katey Castellano 5. Enclosing Fantasies: Jane Eyre ! Madeleine Wood ix xv 1 27 34 60 76 94 viii Contents 6. Jane Eyre’s Doubles? Colonial Progress and the Tradition of New Woman Writing in India ! Narin Hassan 7. Revisiting the Attic: Recognizing the Shared Spaces of Jane Eyre and Beloved ! Danielle Russell 8. The Legacy of Hell: Wuthering Heights on Film and Gilbert and Gubar’s Feminist Poetics ! Hila Shachar 9. The Veiled, the Masked, and the Civil War Woman: Louisa May Alcott and the Madwoman Allegory ! Keren Fite 10. Sensationalizing Women’s Writing: Madwomen in Attics, the Sensational Canon, and Generic Confinement ! Tamara Silvia Wagner 11. Ghosts in the Attic: Gilbert and Gubar’s The Madwoman in the Attic and the Female Gothic ! Carol Margaret Davison 12. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Well-Tempered Madness ! Thomas P. Fair 13. Mimesis and Poiesis: Reflections on Gilbert and Gubar’s Reading of Emily Dickinson ! Lucia Aiello Contributors Index 111 127 149 170 183 203 217 237 257 261 ...