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

pt. 1.; Toward a feminist poetics

; ch. 1.; Queen's looking glass: female creativity, male images of women, and the metaphor of literary paternity

; ch. 2.; Infection in the sentence: the woman writer and the anxiety of authorship

; ch. 3.; Parables of the cave

; pt. 2.; Inside the House of Fiction: Jane Austen's tenants of possibility

; ch. 4.; Shut up in prose: gender and genre in Austen's juvenilia

; ch. 5.; Jane Austen's cover story (and its secret agents)

; pt. 3.; How are we fal'n?: Milton's daughters

; ch. 6.; Milton's Bogey: partriarchal poetry and women readers

; ch. 7.; Horror's twin: Mary Shelley's monstrous eve

; ch. 8.; Looking oppositely: Emily Brontë's bible of hell

; pt. 4.; Spectral selves of Charlotte Brontë

; ch. 9.; Secret, inward wound: The Professor's pupil

; ch. 10.; Dialogue of self and soul: plain Jane's progress

; ch. 11.; Genesis of hunger, according to Shirley

; ch. 12.; Buried life of Lucy Snowe

; pt. 5.; Captivity and consciousness in George Eliot's fiction

; ch. 13.; Made keen by loss: George Eliot's veiled vision

; ch. 14.; George Eliot as the angel of destruction

; pt. 6.; Strength in agony: nineteenth-century poetry by women

; ch. 15.; Aesthetics of renunciation

; ch. 16.; Woman: white: Emily Dickinson's yarn of pearl.

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction to the Veritas Paperback Edition

Preface to the First Edition

1. The Queen's Looking Glass: Female Creativity, Male Images of Women, and the Metaphor of Literary Paternity

2. Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety of Authorship

3. The Parables of the Cave

4. Shut Up in Prose: Gender and Genre in Austen's Juvenilia

5. Jane Austen's Cover Story (and Its Secret Agents)

6. Milton's Bogey: Patriarchal Poetry and Women Readers

7. Horror's Twin: Mary Shelley's Monstrous Eve

8. Looking Oppositely: Emily Brontë's Bible of Hell

9. A Secret, Inward Wound: The Professor's Pupil

10. A Dialogue of Self and Soul: Plain Jane's Progress

11. The Genesis of Hunger, According to Shirley

12. The Buried Life of Lucy Snowe

13. Made Keen by Loss: George Eliot's Veiled Vision

14. George Eliot as the Angel of Destruction

15. The Aesthetics of Renunciation

16. A Woman White: Emily Dickinson's Yarn of Pearl

Notes

Index