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GATE 2024 XH2 (English) – Question 34

Critical Theories and Intellectual Traditions · Theoretical Paradigms: Structuralism, Marxism, feminism, existentialism, poststructuralism, modernism, postmodernism, new historicism, postcolonialism, posthumanism · 1 mark · Multiple choice

The Madwoman in the Attic, the title of Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar’s iconic feminist examination of Victorian literature, alludes to which classic novel?

  1. Jane Eyre
  2. Middlemarch
  3. Diary of a Madman
  4. Wuthering Heights

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Correct answer: (A) Jane Eyre

Explanation

The title refers to Bertha Mason, Rochester's wife, who is locked in the attic in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre.