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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Sandra M Gilbert |
| ISBN: | 9780393067644 0393067645 |
| OCLC Number: | 668194888 |
| Description: | xix, 380 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Preface: On hybridity and rereading -- PART I: Finding Atlantis, and growing into feminism. Becoming a feminist together, and apart: notes on collaboration and identity -- Finding Atlantis: thirty years of exploring women's literary traditions in English -- What do feminist critics want? or, A postcard from the volcano -- The education of Henrietta Adams -- A tarantella of theory: Hélène Cixous' and Catherine Clément's newly born woman -- Reflections on a (feminist) discourse of discourse, or Look, Ma, I'm talking! -- PART II: Reading and rereading women's writing. "My name is darkness": the poetry of self-definition -- "A fine, white flying myth": the life/work of Sylvia Plath -- The wayward nun beneath the hill: Emily Dickinson and the mysteries of womanhood -- Jane Eyre and the secrets of furious lovemaking -- The key to happiness: on Frances Hodgson Burnett's The secret garden --"Dare you see a soul at the White Heat?": thoughts on a "Little home-keeping person" -- PART III: Mother rites: maternity, matriarchy, creativity. From patria to matria: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Risorgimento --"Life's empty pack": notes toward a literary daughteronomy -- Potent Griselda: male modernists and the Great Mother -- Mother rites: maternity, matriarchy, creativity. |
| Responsibility: | Sandra M. Gilbert. |
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