Madwoman In The Attic Introduction

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Madwoman in the attic introduction.

This new edition contains an introduction titled the madwoman in the academy that is quite simply a delight to read warmly witty. But the value of madwoman is. To read the madwoman in the attic the first time round was thrilling as though you d been introduced to a secret code in women s literature hiding in plain sight. Sometimes it s hard to believe that it took until the 1970s for people to really think about what rochester s wife bertha mason was doing all locked up in that attic in jane.

The madwoman in the attic the woman writer and the nineteenth century originally published in 1979 has long since become a classic one of the most important works of literary criticism of the 20th century. The madwoman in the attic takes its title from the iconic early victorian novel jane eyre in this novel rochester s first wife bertha mason has gone mad and is kept locked in an attic. Heilbrun washington post book world a pathbreaking book of literary criticism is now reissued with a new introduction by lisa appignanesi that speaks to how the madwoman in the attic set the groundwork for subsequent generations. The madwoman in the attic the woman writer and the nineteenth century originally published in 1979 has long since become a classic one of the most important works of literary criticism of the 20th century.

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