SOURCE: Gilbert, Sandra M., and Susan Gubar. “Made Keen by Loss: George Eliot's Veiled Vision.” In The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination, pp. 443-77. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press, 1979.
In the following essay, Gilbert and Gubar examine Eliot's place in Gothic female literary tradition, elucidate autobiographical aspects of “The Lifted Veil,” and provide a feminist perspective on the story.
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