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Conditioned to doubt their own authority anyway, women writers who wanted to describe what, in Dickinson's phrase, is "not brayed of tongue" would find it easier to doubt themselves than the censorious voices of society. The evasions and concealments of their art are therefore far more elaborate than those of most male writers. For, given the patriarchal biases of nineteenth-century literary culture, the literary woman did have something crucial to hide.
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Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety
More specifically, however, the one plot that seems to be concealed in most of the nineteenth-century literature by women which will concern us here is in some sense a story of the woman writer's quest for her own story; it is the story, in other words, of the woman's quest for self-definition...
...The story "no man may guess," therefore, is the story of her attempt to make herself whole by healing her own infections and diseases.
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Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety
It is significant, then, that when the speaker of "The Other Side of a Mirror" looks into her glass the woman that she sees is a mad- woman, "wild / With more than womanly despair," the monster that she fears she really is rather than the angel she has pretended to be.
What the heroine of George Eliot's verse-drama Armgari calls "basely feigned content, the placid mask / Of woman's misery" is merely a mask, and Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, like so many of her contemporaries, records the emergence from behind the mask of a figure whose rage "once no man on earth could guess."
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Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety
...the madwoman in literature by women is not merely, as she might be in male literature, an antagonist or foil to the heroine. Rather, she is usually in some sense the author's double, an image of her own anxiety and rage.
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Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety
From a male point of view, women who reject the submissive silences of domesticity have been seen as terrible objects — Gorgons, Sirens, Scyllas, serpent-Lamias, Mothers of Death or Goddesses of Night.
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Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety
For the great women writers of the past two centuries are linked by the ingenuity with which all, while no one was really looking, danced out of the debilitating looking glass of the male text into the health of female authority. Tracing subversive pictures behind socially acceptable facades, they managed to appear to dissociate themselves from their own revolutionary impulses even while passionately enacting such impulses. Articulating the "private lives of one half of humanity," their fiction and poetry both records and transcends the struggle of what Marge Piercy has called "Unlearning to not speak."
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