Women's Reading in Britain, 17501835
Subtitle: A Dangerous Recreation
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 17, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780521022996
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Social history; Women's studies; c 1700 to c 1800; Great Britain; English prose literature; Women's Studies - History; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Europe - Great Britain - General; United Kingdom, Great Britain; History; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Women Authors; English prose literature--18th century--Histo; English prose literature--18th century--History and criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / Women Authors; Literary Criticism-English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Social Science / Gender Studies; Social Science-Women's Studies - History; Books and reading; 18th century; 19th century; History and criticism; Women
First sentence: A founding text of modern feminist literary theory, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic, centres on the 'anxiety of influence' suffered by women writers in a cultural world dominated by men.