The Madwoman in the Attic

Contents:

The Queen's looking glass: female creativity, male images of women, and the metaphor of literary paternity

Infection in the sentence: the woman writer and the anxiety of authorship

The parables of the cave

Shut up in prose: gender and genre in Austen's Juvenilia

Jane Austen's cover story (and its secret agents)

Milton's bogey: patriarchal poetry and women readers

Horror's twin: Mary Shelley's monstrous Eve

Looking oppositely: Emily Brontë's bible of hell

A secret, inward wound: The professor's pupil

A dialogue of self and soul: plain Jane's progress

The genesis of hunger, according to Shirley

The buried life of Lucy Snowe

Made keen by loss: George Eliot's veiled vision

George Eliot as the angel of destruction

The aesthetics of renunciation

A woman, white: Emily Dickinson's yarn of pearl.