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Author Rigney, Barbara Hill, 1938-

Title Madness and sexual politics in the feminist novel : studies in Brontë, Woolf, Lessing, and Atwood / Barbara Hill Rigney.

Publication Info. Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 1978.

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 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  823.03 RINGNEY    Check Shelf
Description 148 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 137-141.
Note Includes index.
Contents "The frenzied moment": sex and sanity in Jane Eyre -- "The sane and the insane": psychosis and mysticism in Mrs. Dalloway -- "A rehearsal for madness": hysteria as sanity in The four-gated city -- "After the failure of logic": descent and return in Surfacing -- The self-created other: integration and survival.
Subject English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Atwood, Margaret, 1939-
Literature and mental illness -- Great Britain -- History.
Feminist fiction, English -- History and criticism.
Feminism and literature -- Great Britain -- History.
Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History.
Mental illness in literature.
Mentally ill in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Sex role.
Indexed Term Fiction in English Women writers, 1837-1977. Special themes: Interrelationships of insanity & femininity - Critical studies
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