Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar: A Selective Bibliogrpahy

Bibliography and Links on Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar

Works by Gilbert and Gubar

The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth Century Literary Imagination. Yale UP, 1978.

Award-winning and now classic study of patterns of influence and indebtedness among woemn novelists and poets including Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Emily and Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, and Emily Dickinson. Begins with an extensive 3-chapter critique of the phallocentricism and misogyny of neo-classical and Romantic theories of poetic creation, especially as embodied in the critical perspective of Harold Bloom. Gilbert is primarily responsible for chapters on poetry; Gubar on prose. Gilbert's solo chapters include 6, about Milton's inhibiting influence on subsequent female poets, 7 on Frankenstein, 8 on Wuthering Heights, 9 on Jane Eyre, and 15 and 16 on Emily Dickinson.
For reviews and comment on Madwoman see:

Auerbach, Nina. Victorian Studies 23 (Summer 1980): <233>
Moi, Toril. Sexual/ Textual Politics 57-69.
Spaull, Sue and Elaine Millard. "Chapter Four: The Anxiety of Authorship." 122-52 in Feminist Readings, Feminists Reading by Mills et al.
On-line summary
First Chapter on amazon

Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, eds. Shakespeare's Sisters: Feminist Essays on Women Poets. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1979.
Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar. "'Forward into the Past': The Complex Female Affiliation Complex." In Historical Studies and Literary Criticism. Ed. Jerome J. McGann. .wisc 1985, 240-65. Revised and reprinted as Chapter <> of No Man's Land.

An important revision of Freudian terminology which reverses Freud to provide a Bloomian reading of patterns of influence among twentieth-century women poets. Important reconsideration of many of the ideas in the Introduction to Madwoman. In considering the attitudes towards influence of 20th century women writers, G&G have begun to see patterns of anxiety somewhat similar to those outlined by Bloom. They describe three basic options women with a literary history have for relating to their precursors, describing them (somewhat) in Freudian terms: 1) identification with father/male precursors; 2)rejection of both paternal and maternal influences; 3) claim maternal inheritance.

Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar. "Sexual Linguistics: Gender, Language, Sexuality." New Literary History 16:3 (Spring 1985):><. Revised and Reprinted as Chapter <> of No Man's Land.
Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, eds. The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Tradition in English. w.w. Norton, 1985. 2nd Ed. 1995.

A landmark in the canonization and preservation of women's literature, this volume also provides historical summaries of the literary and social status of women during different historical periods, and up-to date core bibliographies on every single author included. Bibliographies list definitive editions, biographies, and bibliographies, mention major critical studies, and highlight specifically feminist treatment. Indispensable aid to both teaching and research.
For reviews, critiques and commentaries on the Norton, see:

Robinson, Lillian S. "Is There Class in This Text?" Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 5.2 (Fall 1986)
Zagarelll, Sandra A. "Conceptualizing Women's Literary History." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 5.2 (Fall 1986).

"The Female Imagination and the Modernist Aesthetic." Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 1986, 13:1-2.
No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century, I: The War of the Words. New Haven : Yale UP, 1988.
No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century, II: Sexchanges. New Haven : Yale UP, 1989
"The Mirror and the Vamp: Reflections on Feminist Criticism." 144-166 IN Cohen-Ralph (ed.). The Future of Literary Theory. New York : Routledge, 1989.
"'But Oh! That Deep Romantic Chasm': The Engendering of Periodization." The Kenyon-Review, 1991 Summer, 13:3, 74-81.
No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century; Vol. 3: Letters from the Front. New Haven : Yale UP, 1994.
Masterpiece Theater: An Academic Melodrama. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers UP, 1995.
Mothersongs: Poems For, By, and about Mothers by Susan Gubar, Sandra M. Gilbert, and Diana O'Hehir (Hardcover - May 1996)
Feminist Literary Theory and Criticism: A Norton Reader by Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar (Paperback - Sep 19, 2007)

Works by Gilbert
Link to Recent MLA Citations

Death's Door: Modern Dying and the Ways We Grieve. W.W. Norton, 2004
Ed. Inventions of Farewell: A Book of Elegies (April 16, 2001) W.W. Norton & Company
Kissing the Bread: New and Selected Poems,1969-1999 (July 2000) W.W. Norton & Company;
Ghost Volcano : Poems (March 1997) W.W. Norton & Company
Wrongful Death (March 1995) W.W. Norton & Company
Blood Pressure (Poems) (November 1989) W.W. Norton & Company
Acts of Attention : The Poems of D.H.Lawrence

Works by Gubar

Rooms of Our Own. University of Illinois Press; 1 edition (August 30, 2006)
A Room of One's Own (Intro and Annotated by Susan Gubar) by Virginia Woolf, Mark Hussey, and Susan Gubar ( - Aug 1, 2005) Harcourt Brice.
Poetry After Auschwitz: Remembering What One Never Knew (Jewish Literature and Culture) Indiana UP, 2002
Critical Condition (Gender and Culture) (February 15, 2000)Columbia Univ Pr; Excerpt: What Ails Feminist Criticism?
Racechanges : White Skin, Black Face inAmerican Culture (Race and American Culture)(March 2000) Oxford University Press. Blurb from IU
For Adult Users Only : The Dilemma of Violent Pornography (Everywoman : Studies in

History, Literature and Culture) by Susan Gubar (Editor), Jaon Hoff (Editor), Joan

Hoff-Wilson (Editor), Joan Hoff (Editor)(May 1989) Indiana University Press.

Works About Gilbert and Gubar

Making Feminist History : The Literary Scholarship of Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, Vol 1783)

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