Archives

Fall 1989, Vol. 8, No. 2

From the Editor, 197-199
Holly Laird

Articles

The First English Novel: Aphra Behn’s Love Letters, The Canon, and Women’s Tastes, 201-222
Judith Kegan Gardiner

“The Art of Sacred Parody” in Mary Sidney’s Psalmes, 223-239
Beth Wynne Fisken

The Embodied Muse: Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh and Feminist Poetics, 241-262
Joyce Zonana

Childbirth from the Woman’s Point of View in British Women’s Fiction: Enid Bagnold’s The Squire and A.S. Byatt’s Still Life, 263-286
Tess Cosslett

Minority History as Metafiction: Joy Kogawa’s Obasan, 287-306
Donald C. Goellnicht

Reviews

A Very Serious Thing: Women’s Humor and American Culture, by Nancy Walker; Redressing the Balance: American Women’s Literary Humor from Colonial Times to the 1980s, by Nancy Walker and Zita Dressner; Last Laughs: Perspectives on Women and Comedy, edited by Regina Barreca, 307-312
Cristianne Miller

Mythology and Misogyny: The Social Discourse of Nineteenth-Century British Classical-Subject Painting, Joseph A. Kestner, 313-314
Nina Auerbach

Christina Rossetti in Context, by Antony H. Harrison; The Achievement of Christina Rossetti, edited by David A. Kent, 315-316
Dorothy Mermin

Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia, edited by Sally Mitchell, 317-318
Joseph Kestner

A Woman’s Portion, Ideology, Culture and the British Female Novel Tradition, Linda C. Hunt, 318-320
Lillian S. Robinson

Honey-Mad Women: Emancipatory Strategies in Women’s Writing, by Patricia Yaeger; Literary Fat Ladies: Rhetoric, Gender, Property, by Patricia Parker, 321-327
Barbara Correll

Where the Meanings Are: Feminism and Cultural Spaces, by Catharine R. Stimpson, 327-330
Pamela L. Caughie

Woman to Woman: Female Friendship in Victorian Fiction, by Tess Cosslett, 331-334
Betty Rizzo

Sor Juana or, The Traps of Faith, by Octavio Paz, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden, 334-338
Gerald W. Haslam

Archives

Grace Paley: A Bibliography, 339-354
Ulrich Halfmann and Philipp Gerlach

Spring 1989, Vol. 8, No. 1

TOWARD A GENDERED MODERNITY

From the Editor: Thinking Again about Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, 7-18
Holly Laird

Articles

Gendered Doubleness and the “Origins” of Modernist Form, 19-42
Marianne DeKoven

Rebecca West and the Visual Arts, 43-62
Margaret Diane Stetz

The Modern City and the Construction of Female Desire: Wells’s In the Days of the Comet and Robins’s The Convert, 63-75
Susan M. Squier

Fascinating Vision and Narrative Cure: Marguerite Duras’s The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein, 77-94
Deborah Glassman

Notes

Edith Wharton’s War Story, 95-100
Alan Price

Review Essays

Lycanthropy: Woolf Studies Now (A Survey of Criticism, 1985-1988), 101-110
Jane Marcus

The (En)gendering of Literary History, 111-120
Pamela L. Caughie

Reviews

The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten, edited by Edward Burns, 121-125
Shari Benstock

Ezra Pound and Margaret Cravens: A Tragic Friendship 1910-1912, edited by Omar Pound and Robert Spoo, 125-128
Bonnie Kime Scott

No Man’s Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century, Volume II: Sexchanges, by Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, 128-130
Celia Patterson

Woman Against Women in Victorian England: A Life of Eliza Lynn Linton, by Nancy Fix Anderson; Elizabeth Gaskell, by Patsy Stoneman, 131-133
Nina Auerbach

Emily Dickinson: A Poet’s Grammar, by Cristanne Miller, 133-135
Joanne Feit Diehl

Myths of Sexuality: Representations of Women in Victorian Britain, by Lynda Nead; The Landscape of the Brontës, by Arthur Pollard, 135-137
Joseph A. Kestner

Judith Gautier: A Biography, by Joanna Richardson, 137-140
Melanie C. Hawthorne

The Character of Beauty in the Victorian Novel, by Lori Hope Lefkovitz; The Flesh Made Word: Female Figures and Women’s Bodies, by Helena Michie, 140-142
Thaïs E. Morgan

Archives

Women Writers in the Proletarian Literature Collection, McFarlin Library, 143-153
Ken Kirkpatrick and Sidney F. Huttner

Fall 1988, Vol. 7, No. 2

From the Editor, 193-196
Holly Laird

Articles

Rewriting Genesis: Gender and Culture in Twentieth-Century Texts, 197-220
Christine Froula

The Sacrifice of Privacy in Sense and Sensibility, 221-237
George E. Haggerty

Texts to Grow On: Reading Women’s Romance Fiction, 239-259
Suzanne Juhasz

Theory and Space, Space and Woman, 261-282
Ruth Salvaggio

The Dream and the Dialogue: Rich’s Feminist Poetics and Gadamer’s Hermeneutics, 283-296
Alice Templeton

Notes

Isak Dinesen and the Stork: Delivering the Female Text, 297-300
Judith Rosenberg

Reviews

The Singing of the Real World: The Philosophy of Virginia Woolf’s Fiction, by Mark Hussey; The Interrupted Moment: A View of Virginia Woolf’s Fiction, by Lucio P. Routolo; The Invisible Presence: Virginia Woolf and the Mother-Daughter Relationship, by Ellen Bayuk Rosenman; Virginia Woolf and the “Lust of Creation”: A Psychoanalytic Exploration, by Shirley Panken, 301-305
Panthea Reid Broughton

Reading in Detail: Aesthetics and the Feminine, by Naomi Schor, 305-307
Kate Meyers

Boundaries of the Self: Gender, Culture, Fiction, by Roberta Rubenstein, 307-310
Elizabeth R. Baer

What Fresh Hell Is This?, by Marion Meade, 310-312
Linda Simon

The Female Form: Women Writers and the Conquest of the Novel, by Rosalind Miles, 312-313
Linda Shires

The Eighteenth-Century Feminist Mind, by Alice Browne, 313-314
Linda V. Troost

Spring 1988, Vol. 7, No. 1

A Note from the Acting Editor, 5-6
Mary O’Toole

Articles

Sarah Gardner: “Such Trumpery” or “A Lustre to Her Sex”?, 7-25
Isobel Grundy

“Plaisir et proffict” in the Reading and Writing of Marguerite de Valois, 27-48
Cathleen M. Bauschatz

Gender and Poetic Tradition: The Shaping of Charlotte Brontë’s Literary Career, 49-67
Carol A. Bock

Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Her Prometheuses: Self-Will and a Woman Poet, 69-85
Alice Falk

Feminine Sensationalism, Eroticism, and Self-Assertion: M.E. Braddon and Ouida, 87-103
Natalie Schroeder

Feminist Fantasies: Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, 105-117
Jennifer Jordan

Review Essay

Reshuffling the Deck; Or, (Re)Reading Race and Gender in Black Women’s Writing, 119-132
Claudia Tate

Reviews

Women Writers, series, edited by Eva Figes and Adele King, 133-138
Margaret Atwood, by Barbara Hill Rigney
Charlotte Bronte, by Pauline Nestor
Fanny Burney, by Judy Simons
Sylvia Plath, by Susan Bassnet
Christina Stead, by Diana Brydon
Mary O’Toole

Reading Woman: Essays in Feminist Criticism, by Mary Jacobus; Virginia Woolf and the Languages of Patriarchy, by Jane Marcus, 138-145
Bradford K. Mudge

The Politics of Diversity: Feminism, Marxism, and Nationalism, edited by Roberta Hamilton and Michèle Barrett; What Is Feminism? A Re-Examination, edited by Juliet Mitchell and Ann Oakley, 145-147
Lillian S. Robinson

His and Hers: Essays in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature, by Ann Messenger, 148-150
Isobel Grundy

Marianne Moore, Subversive Modernist, by Taffy Martin; Marianne Moore: The Poetry of Engagement, by Grace Schulman, 151-153
Marilyn L. Brownstein

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself, by Harriet A. Jacobs, edited by Lydia Maria Child, edited and with an introduction by Jean Fagan Yellin; A Private War: Letters and Diaries of Madge Preston, 1862-1867, edited by Virginia Walcott Beauchamp, 153-155
Susan Millar Williams

Letters

Letter from Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, 159

Fall 1987, Vol. 6, No. 2

WOMEN AND NATIONS

Introduction: Women and Nations, 181-188
Nina Auerbach

Articles

Revolutionary Women, 189-223
Betsy Erkkila

Expanding “America”: Lydia Sigourney’s Sketch of Connecticut, Catharine Sedgwick’s Hope Leslie, 225-245
Sandra A. Zagarell

Words and Worlds: Emma Lazarus’s Conflicting Citizenships, 247-263
Diane Lichtenstein

Queen Victoria, Empire, and Excess, 265-281
Adrienne Auslander Munich

“East of the Sun and West of the Moon”: Victorians and Fairy Brides, 283-298
Carole Silver

Of Babylands and Babylons: E. Nesbit and the Reclamation of the Fairy Tale, 299-325
U.C. Knoepflmacher

Photographing the Body Politic, 326-332
Carol Shloss

Reviews

The Defiant Muse: French Feminist Poems from the Middle Ages to the Present, by Domna C. Stanton, 333-334
Jane A. Nicholson

The Defiant Muse: Hispanic Feminist Poems from the Middle Ages to the Present, edited by Angel Flores and Kate Flores, 335-336
Patricia N. Klingerberg

The Defiant Muse: German Feminist Poems from the Middle Ages to the Present, edited by Susan L. Cocalis, 336-337
Vibeke Rützou Petersen

The Defiant Muse: Italian Feminist Poems from the Middle Ages to the Present, edited by Beverly Allen, Muriel Kittel, and Keala Jane Jewell, 337-338
Corinna del Greco Lobner

Mothers of the Novel: 100 Good Women Writers Before Jane Austen, by Dale Spender, 338-347
Betty Rizzo

Women of the Left Bank: Paris, 1900-1940, by Shari Benstock, 347-348
Harriet S. Chessman

Men in Feminism, edited by Alice A. Jardine and Paul Smith, 348-349
Frances L. Restuccia

Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women’s Poetry in America, by Alicia Suskin Ostriker, 349-352
Diana Hume George

Pocahontas’s Daughters: Gender and Ethnicity in American Culture, by Mary V. Dearborn; Radiant Daughters: Fictional American Women, by Thelma J. Shinn, 353-355
Nancy Walker

Felicitious Space: The Imaginative Structures of Edith Wharton and Willa Cather, by Judith Fryer, 355-356
Celia Patterson

Willa Cather: The Emerging Voice, by Sharon O’Brien; The Voyage Perilous: Willa Cather’s Romanticism, by Susan J. Rosowski, 356-357
Linda Pannill

Christina Rossetti: The Poetry of Endurance, by Dolores Rosenblum, 358
Betty S. Flowers

Fanny Burney, by Judy Simons; The Novels and Journals of Fanny Burney, by D. D. Devlin; Jane Austen, Feminism and Fiction, by Margaret Krikham; Romantic Imprisonment: Women and Other Glorified Outcasts, by Nina Auerbach; Geraldine Jewsbury’s “Athenaeum” Reviews: A Mirror of Mid-Victorian Attitudes to Fiction, Monica Correa Fryckstedt, 358-362
Joseph A. Kestner

Aphra Behn: An Annotated Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Source, by Mary Ann O’Donnell, 362-364
Susan Hastings

Women in German Yearbook 3: Feminist Studies and German Culture, edited by Marianne Burkhard and Edith Waldstein, 365-366
Vibeke Rützou Petersen

Oedipus Anne: The Poetry of Anne Sexton, by Diana Hume George, 366-368
Stephanie Demetrakopoulos

Letters

Letter from Josephine Donovan, 371-372

Letter from Paul Lauter, 373

Letter from Angela Ingram, 373-374