The madwoman in the attic : the woman writer and the nineteenth-century literary imagination

In this work the authors explore the works of many 19th-century women writers. They chart a tangible desire expressed for freedom from the restraints of a confining patriarchal society and trace a distinctive female literary tradition.
The Queen's looking glass: female creativity, male images of women, and the metaphor of literary paternity --
Infection in the sentence: the women 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.