Bronte Wife In Attic

The woman writer and the nineteenth century literary imagination is a 1979 book by sandra gilbert and susan gubar in which they examine victorian literature from a feminist perspective.

Bronte wife in attic.

The madwoman in the attic. In 1979 sandra gilbert and susan gubar made a breakthrough in feminist criticism with their work the madwoman in the attic. And his wife is locked in the attic. Bertha mason rochester s first wife was a beautiful creole woman from jamaica who rochester married years ago before she had a mental breakdown and.

However bertha s position as the madwoman in the attic also speaks to larger social questions of femininity and authorship during the victorian period. The 1966 parallel novel wide sargasso sea by jean rhys serves as a prequel to brontë s novel. The woman writer and the nineteenth century literary. Gilbert and gubar draw their title from charlotte brontë s jane eyre in which rochester s wife née bertha mason is kept secretly locked in an attic apartment by her husband.