Books by Susan Gubar and Complete Book Reviews
Susan Gubar, Author . Univ. of Illinois $40 (241p) ISBN 978-0-252-03140-3
Gubar and Sandra M. Gilbert revolutionized feminist literary criticism with their 1979 Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-century Literary Imagination
. This memoir crossed with cultural criticism, written in the style of...
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Susan Gubar, Author . Norton $27.95 (453p) ISBN 978-0-393-06483-4
How does one go about writing a biography of a man about whom we know virtually nothing? Yes, we have the gospel accounts about the 12th disciple. And we have some evidence from church tradition about the man who betrayed Jesus and handed him over...
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Susan Gubar, Author Columbia University Press $40 (256p) ISBN 978-0-231-11580-3
Is feminism dead, as Time magazine famously inquired? Has critical feminist inquiry in the academy become either so fragmented or so specialized as to be irrelevant to women's real lives? Finally, and most poignantly, have intergenerational friction
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Susan Gubar. Norton, $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-393-07325-6
Feminist author and scholar Gubar received a diagnosis of ovarian cancer in 2008, and the then 63-year-old author underwent the radical surgical procedure called debulking, which removes many of the organs in a woman’s lower abdomen. Gubar’s memoir...
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Susan Gubar. Norton, $26.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-393-24698-8
Part writing manual, part memoir, and part literary and artistic critique, this companion to Gubar’s New York Times column, “Living with Cancer,” would make a valuable addition to any cancer patient’s bookshelf. In stylish and unflinching prose,...
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Susan Gubar. Norton, $25.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-393-60957-8
New York Times columnist Gubar (Reading and Writing Cancer) references literary works to present a probing discussion of aging in this bittersweet memoir. At 70 and in remission from ovarian cancer, Gubar and her 87-year-old husband, Don Gray (both...
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Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar. Norton, $27.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-393-65171-3
Literary critics Gilbert and Gubar analyze the cultural legacy of feminism’s second wave in this comprehensive if uneven update to The Madwoman in the Attic (1979). They place major works by Sylvia Plath, Diane DiPrima, and Audre Lorde in the...
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