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Title: The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination by Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar ISBN: 0-300-08458-7 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: September, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: an excellent, if outdated, book
Comment: As a former student of Prof. Gubar, I can attest to the importance of this book within feminist literary circles: Gilbert and Gubar, Inc. created a piece of scholarship that transformed the way students of literature read literature. The book's place among feminist literary criticism today attests to the importance of their mission--were it not for Gilbert and Gubar, someone else, perhaps today, would be performing this kind of work. The fact remains, however, that the proliferation of feminist critique, whether from Robyn Wiegman or Lauren Berlant, makes this text an essential primer for feminist criticism, but not as compelling as the works it tacitly bore.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Former Student's Opinion
Comment: As a former student of Susan Gubar, I would have to recommend this book to anyone interested in a deeper understading of the novels covered and also finding a different perspective to the traditional critical approaches. As a groundbreaking work, this collection critically looks at and analyzes many different aspects approaching the anxiety of female authorship. This work is truly interesting, and to all of the naysayers, I can vouch that the authors are have a very compelling and informed perspective. The second edition proves that it is a work that will be around for a very long time and that the work will not fall into obscurity, for it is a inspired work of literary criticism. I would recommend this to anyone who seeks a deeper look into the popular women novelists.
Rating: 1
Summary: This is just icky
Comment: I apply a very simple standard to literary criticism: Read the critique then reread the original. If the critique improves my appreciation and understanding of the original, then I have spent my time wisely. This book fails that test.
Gilbert & Gubar seem to have little appreciation for the artistry of literary criticism. They seem incapable of writing concise, insightful sentences. They seem to have little appreciation for the rhythms and patterns of English; their sentences read approximately the same way a lopsided trash-can rolls down a hill. There's a lot of noise but not much is actually accomplished. This book cries out for a patient and caring First Year english instructor with a red pen.
Individual chapters seem to have promise, quickly drained by the authors inability to focus, summarise, analyse and bring their subject to life. Their analysis of the Bronte's had the astonishing effect of reducing my interest in these enthralling authors and their works. The Authors insight into the nineteenth century gothic is at best weak. They make much of minor issues and ignore broader themes linking their chosen authors and works.
At its best, reading literary criticism is an electrifying experience, one that inspires you to reach for the nearest great book and savor it as you would fine wine and great food. In the case of the Madwoman in the Attic, it inspires you to regard the library with weariness and a heavy heart. Simply stated, this is book is as tired as Kathy Lee's latest CD and equally awash in mawkish sentiment. I recommend any book by another, better critics - Harold Bloom, Camille Paglia, Cleanth Brooks, T. S. Eliot.
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Title: A Literature of Their Own by Elaine Showalter ISBN: 0691004765 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 28 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: No Mans Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century: The War of the Words by Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar ISBN: 0300045875 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: August, 1989 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel by Nancy Armstrong ISBN: 0195061608 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: April, 1995 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Teaching Literature by Elaine Showalter ISBN: 0631226249 Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Feminisms: An Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism by Robyn R. Warhol, Diane Price Herndl ISBN: 0813523893 Publisher: Rutgers University Press Pub. Date: May, 1997 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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