Ebook: Madness and sexual politics in the feminist novel : studies in Brontë, Woolf, Lessing, and Atwood

THE PSYCHOANALYTIC APPROACH to literary criticism is a
well-established subject of inquiry. However, a greater
part of the feminist movement has considered modern
psychology to be both a product and a defense of the
status quo-a patriarchal society. Madness and Sexual
Politics in the Feminist Novel attempts to reconcile feminism
and psychology in the area of literary criticism,
to find examples in the major works of four representative
feminist writers of the relationship between madness
and the fem ale condition.