Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar’s the Madwoman in the Attic : The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination, Hardcover by Pohl, Rebecca, ISBN 1912453541, ISBN-13 9781912453542, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US In their extensive study of nineteenth-century women’s writing, Gubar and Gilbert offer radical re-readings of Jane Austen, the Brontës, Emily Dickinson, George Eliot and Mary Shelley tracing a distinctive female literary tradition and female literary aesthetic.