The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar

This book is one of the texts that started the effort to reclaim a female canon. There are great readings of the Brontës, George Eliot, and Jane Austen. While at times the arguments made by the text can seem less like arguments, this fact actually shows how important the text is--many of its assertions, radical at the time, are now commonly accepted. I found the reading of the Snow White story particularly intriguing and persuasive.