# Susan Gubar

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the fairest of them all | mother, daughter, mirror

In this episode of Goddess, Witch, Woman, we descend into the glass coffin and meet the most famous witch of them all — the Evil Queen of Snow White. Drawing from Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Maria Tatar, Sandra Gilbert & Susan Gubar, and ancient goddess myths, we explore what lies beneath her envy: the…

43. Emily Brontë’s WUTHERING HEIGHTS: Gothic Armageddon? (S4E4)

Who wants to break all the rules? Who wants to tear it all down and make the world anew? Emily Brontë does, that’s who.  If you imagined WUTHERING HEIGHTS was some quaint Victorian romantic ghost story…think again.  Honestly, there is just no other book like it.  This 1848 work is truly sui generi…

Jane Austen at 250

This season we're celebrating 250 years of Jane Austen, and she needs a proper introduction. We talk about her family and how they've helped and hindered our understanding of "Dear Aunt Jane." We discover how Austen's difficulties with publication helped her become a more confident and experiment…

The Satire of Blank Space

In this episode, we are covering the fourth song that Taylor Swift submitted to be considered for induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame—Blank Space. This 1989 track was one of her first pop hits, and Uncle Jerry finds the humorous and feminist lenses the poem was written through to be interes…

Wuthering Heights: Everything You Need to Know Before the New Movie Comes Out This Week

Wuthering Heights: Everything You Need to Know Before the New Movie Comes Out This Week The new Wuthering Heights movie starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi is coming soon, and whether you've read Emily Brontë's classic or not, this episode will prepare you for what you're about to see on screen…

Episode 124 -- Wuthering Heights

Last week, Adrian and Moira went to the movies and watched director Emerald Fennell's version of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (trailer here). In this episode they explore the gender politics of the novel, of this adaptation and what it says about the fate of romance fiction in the 2020s. Here a…

The Feminist Critique of Mad Woman

We are getting angry and witchy today with mad woman from Taylor Swift’s 2020 album, folklore. Uncle Jerry teaches us where the word hysteria comes from, how women have been written about for centuries, and how sometimes, we make our own monsters.  Listen to the song with us on Patreon! Works Cite…

Worth

This episode makes three earnest, possibly foolhardy, attempts to put a price on the priceless. We figure out the dollar value for an accidental death, another day of life, and the work of bats and bees as we try to keep our careful calculations from falling apart in the face of the realities of li…

Episode 151 -- Jane Eyre

In this episode, Moira walks Adrian through the genesis and long shadow of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (1847), from the book's leery reception in its own day to its rediscovery as both a feminist text and as a possible site for a critique of certain strands of feminism. Works cited in this episode…

THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit grandhotelabyss.substack.com Welcome back to The Invisible College, my series of literature courses for paid subscribers. The introduction to and schedule for the 2026 season is here. The 2024 and 2025 archives are here. This episode, of…