Susan D. Gubar (born November 30, 1944) [2] is an American author and distinguished Professor Emerita of English and Women's Studies at Indiana University. She is best known for co-authoring the landmark feminist literary study The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (1979) with Sandra Gilbert.

After describing the predicament of the woman writer, Gilbert and Gubar differentiate the attitude of women writers toward their predecessors from the Oedipal male attitudes suggested by Harold Bloom in The Anxiety of Influence.

Aug 17, 2021 · Forty years after their first groundbreaking work of feminist literary theory, The Madwoman in the Attic, award-winning collaborators Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar map the literary history of feminism’s second wave.

Jun 11, 2012 · In 2008, Gubar, the co-author of a seminal feminist text, “The Madwoman in the Attic,” received a diagnosis of ovarian cancer, a disease with an insidiously high mortality rate, whose...

Gilbert and Gubar linked the canonical but isolated figures of Mary Shelley, Jane Austen, and the Brontës in a tradition of protofeminist resistance to patriarchal definition through witty, …

Sep 2, 2021 · Following up on their award-winning 1979 book, “Madwoman in the Attic,” examining the works of 19th century feminist writers, the duo of Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar are back to introduce the women of the 20th century who penned their dreams, their demands, their beliefs and their frustrations as they witnessed social tumult and ...

Oct 29, 2021 · Literary critics Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, in this follow-up to their The Madwoman in the Attic, offer a comprehensive, sweeping engagement with voices from the tradition of second-wave feminism.

Jan 25, 2011 · And although each essay opens Madwoman to a different page, all provocatively circle back—with admiration and respect, objections and challenges, questions and arguments—to Gilbert and Gubar's...

Member, the American Philosophical Society (2011) and recipient, the National Book Critics Circle Lifetime Achievement Award (2013). With collaborator, Sandra Gilbert, pioneered the modern study of literature in English by and about women.

The connection between feminism and modernism, politics and poetics, gender and genre, old rules and new roles is the subject of the second volume of Gilbert and Gubar's landmark work, No Man's Land.