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16. A Woman—White: Emily Dickinson’s Yarn of Pearl

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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents ix
  3. Introduction to the Veritas Paperback Edition xi
  4. Preface to the First Edition xvii
  5. Part I. Toward a Feminist Poetics
  6. 1. The Queen’s Looking Glass: Female Creativity, Male Images of Women, and the Metaphor of Literary Paternity 3
  7. 2. Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety of Authorship 45
  8. 3. The Parables of the Cave 93
  9. Part II. Inside the House of Fiction: Jane Austen’s Tenants of Possibility
  10. 4. Shut Up in Prose: Gender and Genre in Austen’s Juvenilia 107
  11. 5. Jane Austen’s Cover Story (and Its Secret Agents) 146
  12. Part III. How Are We Fal’n?: Milton’s Daughters
  13. 6. Milton’s Bogey: Patriarchal Poetry and Women Readers 187
  14. 7. Horror’s Twin: Mary Shelley’s Monstrous Eve 213
  15. 8. Looking Oppositely: Emily Brontë’s Bible of Hell 248
  16. Part IV. The Spectral Selves of Charlotte Brontë
  17. 9. A Secret, Inward Wound: The Professor’s Pupil 311
  18. 10. A Dialogue of Self and Soul: Plain Jane’s Progress 336
  19. 11. The Genesis of Hunger, According to Shirley 372
  20. 12. The Buried Life of Lucy Snowe 399
  21. Part V. Captivity and Consciousness in George Eliot’s Fiction
  22. 13. Made Keen by Loss: George Eliot’s Veiled Vision 443
  23. 14. George Eliot as the Angel of Destruction 478
  24. Part VI. Strength in Agony: Nineteenth-Century Poetry by Women
  25. 15. The Aesthetics of Renunciation 539
  26. 16. A Woman—White: Emily Dickinson’s Yarn of Pearl 581
  27. Notes 651
  28. Index 699
The Madwoman in the Attic
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https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300252972-018

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents ix
  3. Introduction to the Veritas Paperback Edition xi
  4. Preface to the First Edition xvii
  5. Part I. Toward a Feminist Poetics
  6. 1. The Queen’s Looking Glass: Female Creativity, Male Images of Women, and the Metaphor of Literary Paternity 3
  7. 2. Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety of Authorship 45
  8. 3. The Parables of the Cave 93
  9. Part II. Inside the House of Fiction: Jane Austen’s Tenants of Possibility
  10. 4. Shut Up in Prose: Gender and Genre in Austen’s Juvenilia 107
  11. 5. Jane Austen’s Cover Story (and Its Secret Agents) 146
  12. Part III. How Are We Fal’n?: Milton’s Daughters
  13. 6. Milton’s Bogey: Patriarchal Poetry and Women Readers 187
  14. 7. Horror’s Twin: Mary Shelley’s Monstrous Eve 213
  15. 8. Looking Oppositely: Emily Brontë’s Bible of Hell 248
  16. Part IV. The Spectral Selves of Charlotte Brontë
  17. 9. A Secret, Inward Wound: The Professor’s Pupil 311
  18. 10. A Dialogue of Self and Soul: Plain Jane’s Progress 336
  19. 11. The Genesis of Hunger, According to Shirley 372
  20. 12. The Buried Life of Lucy Snowe 399
  21. Part V. Captivity and Consciousness in George Eliot’s Fiction
  22. 13. Made Keen by Loss: George Eliot’s Veiled Vision 443
  23. 14. George Eliot as the Angel of Destruction 478
  24. Part VI. Strength in Agony: Nineteenth-Century Poetry by Women
  25. 15. The Aesthetics of Renunciation 539
  26. 16. A Woman—White: Emily Dickinson’s Yarn of Pearl 581
  27. Notes 651
  28. Index 699
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