The madwoman in the attic : the woman writer and the nineteenth-century literary imagination

In this work the authors explore the works of many 19th-century women writers. They chart a tangible desire expressed for freedom from the restraints of a confining patriarchal society and trace a distinctive female literary tradition.</div> The Queen's looking glass: female creativity, male images of women, and the metaphor of literary paternity --<br/> Infection in the sentence: the women writer and the anxiety of authorship --<br/> The parables of the cave --<br/> Shut up in prose: gender and genre in Austen's Juvenilia --<br/> Jane Austen's cover story (and its secret agents) --<br/> Milton's bogey: patriarchal poetry and women readers --<br/> Horror's twin: Mary Shelley's monstrous Eve --<br/> Looking oppositely: Emily Brontë's bible of hell --<br/> A secret, inward wound: The professor's pupil --<br/> A dialogue of self and soul: plain Jane's progress --<br/> The genesis of hunger, according to Shirley --<br/> The buried life of Lucy Snowe --<br/> Made keen by loss: George Eliot's veiled vision --<br/> George Eliot as the angel of destruction --<br/> The aesthetics of renunciation --<br/> A woman, white: Emily Dickinson's yarn of pearl.