I am Gilbert and I am Gubar

Who are we and who am I? Our most amous work, The Madwoman in The Attic, is now an award-winning and classic study of patterns of influence and indebtedness among women novelists and poets including Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Emily and  Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, and Emily Dickinson.  It begins with an extensive 3-chapter critique of the phallocentricism and misogyny of neo-classical and Romantic theories of poetic creation, especially as embodied in the critical perspective of Harold Bloom (who coined the term "Anxiety of Influence). We say that it goes much farther than the Oedipal Struggle of having to fight with our fathers (great writers before us like Shakespeare, Homer, or Twain). Men deal with that more than women because women are in the Anxiety of Authorship faze. We are not struggling with our forefathers as much as we are to gain any type of recognition for having the ability to write, and that is what we have wrote about. Gilbert is primarily responsible for chapters on poetry; Gubar on prose. Gilbert's solo chapters include 6, about Milton's inhibiting influence on subsequent female poets, 7 on  Frankenstein,  8 on  Wuthering Heights, 9 on  Jane Eyre, and 15 and 16 on Emily Dickinson.

What do we look like? In further posts we will continue on our path of exploring more of our ideas, in depth, as well as go into a complex explanation of why we look the way we do. Hope to see you again. -Gilbert & Gubar a.k.a Christopher & Clark