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anxiety of authorship: a standalone construct

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Literary theory

the nineteenth-century woman writer's fear that she cannot create because authorship has been defined as male, a precursor anxiety distinct from Bloom's.

In literary theory, anxiety of authorship refers to the nineteenth-century woman writer's fear that she cannot create because authorship has been defined as male, a precursor anxiety distinct from Bloom's. This meaning comes from Gilbert (1979) in The madwoman in the attic.[1]

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Gilbert, S. M., & Gubar, S. (1979). The madwoman in the attic: The woman writer and the nineteenth-century literary imagination. Yale University Press. Open Library record

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