Because of the extent to which ED
's concentrated and elusive verse, as well as her dissent from religious and social orthodoxies, seem to presage modernism, she has been considered the sole serious writer among...
Intertextuality and Influence
Germaine Greer
The title alludes to the key study by Sandra M. Gilbert
, The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination, 1979. The introduction pays tribute to the women Greer...
Intertextuality and Influence
Emily Brontë
Feminist literary critic Sandra M. Gilbert
responded to both Emilies in one of her poetic collections: Emily's Bread (1984), and Anne Carson
to EB
, her favourite author and main fear, which I mean to...
Fictionalization
Sylvia Plath
Once Hughes was dead as well as Plath, the way was clear for fictional recreation of their lives. Emma Tennant
led the way with The Ballad of Sylvia and Ted, 2001 (whose New York...
Anthologization
Julia Kristeva
First translated into English in Signs in autumn 1981, it was assigned to the final position (in Alice Jardine
's and Harry Blake
's version) in The Feminist Reader: Essays in Gender and the Politics...
