Title:
Rereading women : thirty years of exploring our literary traditions / Sandra M. Gilbert.
Main Entry:
Gilbert, Sandra M., author.
Publisher:
W.W. Norton & Co.,
Publication Date:
2011.
Publication Place:
New York :
ISBN:
9780393067644
Subject:
American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Women and literature -- United States -- History.
Feminism and literature -- United States -- History.
Feminist literary criticism.
Edition:
1st ed.
Contents:
Preface: On hybridity and rereading -- PART I: Finding Atlantis, and growing into feminism. Becoming a feminist together, and apart: notes on collaboration and identity -- Finding Atlantis: thirty years of exploring women's literary traditions in English -- What do feminist critics want? or, A postcard from the volcano -- The education of Henrietta Adams -- A tarantella of theory: H�el�ene Cixous' and Catherine Cl�ement's newly born woman -- Reflections on a (feminist) discourse of discourse, or Look, Ma, I'm talking! -- PART II: Reading and rereading women's writing. "My name is darkness": the poetry of self-definition -- "A fine, white flying myth": the life/work of Sylvia Plath -- The wayward nun beneath the hill: Emily Dickinson and the mysteries of womanhood -- Jane Eyre and the secrets of furious lovemaking -- The key to happiness: on Frances Hodgson Burnett's The secret garden --"Dare you see a soul at the White Heat?": thoughts on a "Little home-keeping person" -- PART III: Mother rites: maternity, matriarchy, creativity. From patria to matria: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Risorgimento --"Life's empty pack": notes toward a literary daughteronomy -- Potent Griselda: male modernists and the Great Mother -- Mother rites: maternity, matriarchy, creativity.
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