English Literature / Unit 19 ENL 1811 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Feminist Criticism
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The idea
Feminist criticism examines how literature represents women and how women have written. Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic, of nineteen seventy-nine, took its title from Jane Eyre and argued that women writers were confined to heroines who are either "angel" or "monster."
In practice
Angel or monster.
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The title comes from Jane Eyre.
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