Susan Gubar Summary

In the following essay, Heilbrun praises The Madwoman in the Attic as a major work of feminist critical theory. The pens of authorship have not only been, until the 19th century, entirely in the ha... Read more

In the following essay, Auerbach commends Guber and Gilbert's “liberated” readings of nineteenth-century women writers in The Madwoman in the Attic. Feminist criticism seemed t... Read more

In the following essay, Ashton argues that the feminist thesis in The Madwoman in the Attic is unconvincing. “Is a pen a metaphorical penis?” ask the authors of this study [The Madwom... Read more

In the following review, Miner praises The Madwoman in the Attic for “uncovering a discernible female imagination.” The grand success of this study is that it stimulates us to re-read... Read more

In the following review, Bernikow admires the way Gubar and Gilbert support their arguments in The Madwoman in the Attic. [The Madwoman in the Attic] is long, rich, and brilliant. Sandra M. Gilbert... Read more

In the following excerpt, Boumelha stresses Harold Bloom's methodological influence on The Madwoman in the Attic. … [In The Madwoman in the Attic,] Gilbert and Gubar take their method... Read more

In the following essay, Rose praises Gubar and Gilbert's literary analyses in The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women, but is concerned about the effect of establishing a female literary ca... Read more

In the following essay, Donoghue examines several feminist critics, and observes that feminist criticism is often reductionist and politically motivated. Donoghue maintains that The Norton Anthology o... Read more

In the following review of No Man's Land: The War of the Words, Abraham objects to Gubar and Gilbert's attempts to validate women's literature by placing it in the mainstream of t... Read more

In the following review of volumes one and two of No Man's Land—The War of the Words and Sexchanges—Herrmann argues that Gubar and Gilbert have “abandoned” the notio... Read more

In the following review of the first volume of No Man's Land, Blake contends Gubar and Gilbert ought more strongly to have stressed their argument that patriarchal forms are not embedded in lan... Read more

In the following review of Sexchanges, Patterson explores Gubar and Gilbert's emphasis on World War I as a cause and metaphor for the sexual struggle between men and women at the beginning of t... Read more

In the following interview conducted by Rosdeitcher, Gubar and Gilbert discuss a variety of topics such as their work, women writers, feminist criticism, their critics, and their writing partnership. ... Read more

In the following review, Fishburn praises Sexchanges for the vastness of the authors' scholarship, and the depth and originality of their insights. Fishburn argues, however, that the book is in... Read more

In the following review of The War of Words, Sedgwick praises Gubar and Gilbert's discussion of conflicts between women, but faults the writers for apparent homophobic slips regarding men. I... Read more

In the following excerpt, Ardis praises Letters from the Front, but objects to its scanty coverage of the Harlem Renaissance and of black writers in general. . … As Gillian Beer has noted, t... Read more

In the following review, Blake examines the role of the femme fatale in Sexchanges. The second volume of this three-volume project confirms the distinction, authority, and style of Sandra Gilbert a... Read more

In the following review of Letters from the Front, the third volume of No Man's Land, Blake commends the monumental scope of the collection. After reviewing the prior two volumes of No Man&#... Read more

In the following review, Juhasz discusses Letters from the Front, volume three of No Man's Land, and comments on the “constructed” nature of gender in the study of literature. ... Read more

In the following review, Stavney lauds Racechanges as a useful study examining the ideas of “whiteness” and “blackness” in American culture. In Racechanges: White Skin, ... Read more

In the following review, Rogers lauds the seriousness of Gubar's approach to her subject in Racechanges. From Fred Astaire and Virginia Woolf in black face to Josephine Baker in black face a... Read more

In the following essay, Sage praises Critical Conditions and Gubar's ability to remain committed to explicating the varieties of feminist criticism which have developed since the publication of... Read more

In the following essay, Appiah discusses the tensions and divisions among academic feminist theorists as they are reflected in Critical Conditions. 1. Academic moralism is one of the oldest traditi... Read more