Archives

Fall 1999, Vol. 18, No. 2

From the Editor, 167-171
Holly Laird

Articles

A Feminist Romance: Adapting Little Women to the Screen, 173-192 [abstract]
Karen Hollinger and Teresa Winterhalter

Mates, Marriage, and Motherhood: Feminist Visions in Pauline Hopkins’s Contending Forces, 193-214 [abstract]
Gloria T. Randle

Mother’s Pain, Mother’s Voice: Gabriela Mistral, Julia Kristeva, and the Mater Dolorosa, 215-233 [abstract]
Margaret Bruzelius

Revisiting Woolf’s Representations of Androgyny: Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Nation, 235-261 [abstract]
Karen Kaivola

Supplanting Shakespeare’s Rising Sons: A Perverse Reading through Woolf’s The Waves, 263-280 [abstract]
Robin Hackett

“The Old Maps are Dissolving”: Intertextuality and Identity in Atwood’s The Robber Bride, 281-298 [abstract]
Donna L. Potts

Archives

A Bibliography of Works By and About Caroline Kirkland, 299-350
Erika M. Kreger

Reviews

Women and the Rise of the Novel, 1405-1726, by Josephine Donovan, 351-352
Joanne M. Cordón

Authorship, Commerce, and Gender in Early Eighteenth-Century England: A Culture of Paper Credit, by Catherine Ingrassia; Misogynous Economies: The Business of Literature in Eighteenth-Century Britain, by Laura Mandell, 352-357
Laura Stevens

Proposing Men: Dialectics of Gender and Class in the Eighteenth-Century English Periodical, by Shawn Lisa Maurer; The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace 1678-1730, by Paula McDowell, 357-362
Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace

Caroline Bowles Southey 1786-1854: The Making of a Woman Writer, by Virginia Blain, 362-365
John Bury

Women, Writing, and the Industrial Revolution, by Susan Zlotnick, 365-367
Lynette Felber

Lives of Their Own: Rhetorical Dimensions in Autobiographies of Women Activists, by Martha Watson, 367-369
Stacey Short

Mary Butts: Scenes from the Life, by Nathalie Blondel, 369-371
Donna Krolik Hollenberg

Black Venus: Sexualized Savages, Primal Fears, and Primitive Narratives in French, by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, 371-372
Opportune Zongo

Spring 1999, Vol. 18, No. 1

From the Editor, 7-9
Holly Laird

Articles

Placing Children at the Fulcrum of Social Change: Antiracist Mothering in Tillie Olsen’s “O Yes,11-28
Joanne S. Frye

Creating a Symbol: The Seamstress in Victorian Literature, 29-38
Lynn M. Alexander

Homesickness in Susan Warner’s The Wide, Wide World, 39-58
Sara E. Quay

Home Fires: Doris Lessing, Colonial Architecture, and the Reproduction of Mothering, 59-89
Victoria Rosner

Economies of Experience in The Book of Jessica, 91-111
Laura J. Murray

Reviews

Desiring Women Writing: English Renaissance Examples, by Jonathan Goldberg, 113-114
Teresa Feroli

Unnatural Affections: Women and Fiction in the Later 18th Century, by George E. Haggerty, 115-116
Terri Nickel

Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Spiritual Progress: Face to Face with God, by Linda M. Lewis, 116-118
Joyce Zonana

Mary Ann Shadd Cary: the Black Press and Protest in the Nineteenth Century, by Jane Rhodes, 118-120
Jennifer Bernhardt Steadman

Spectacular Confessions: Autobiography, Performative Activism, and the Sites of Suffrage, 1905-1938, by Barbara Green, 120-122
Stacey Short

Through the Window, Out the Door: Women’s Narratives of Departure, From Austin and Cather to Tyler, Morrison, and Didion, by Janis P. Stout, 122-123
Heather White

Racechanges: White Skin, Black Face in American Culture, Susan Gubar, 124-125
Anne Stavney

Haiti, History, and the Gods, by Joan Dayan; Framing Silence: Revolutionary Novels by Haitian Women, by Myriam J. A. Chancy, 126-130
Kevin Meehan

The Mother and Narrative Politics in Modern China, by Sally Taylor Lieberman; Writing Women in Modern China: An Anthology of Women’s Literature From the Early Twentieth Century, edited by Amy D. Dooling and Kristina M. Torgeson, 130-134
Charles A. Laughlin

Fall 1998, Vol. 17, No. 2

POLITICAL DISCOURSE / BRITISH WOMEN’S WRITING, 1640-1867

Introduction, 207-11
Teresa Feroli

Articles

A Hammer in Her Hand: The Separation of Church from State and the Early Feminist Writings of Katherine Chidley, 213-233
Katharine Gillespie

Invasions: Prophecy and Bewitchment in the Case of Margaret Muschamp, 235-253
Diane Purkiss

The Fathers’ Seductions: Improper Relations of Desire in Seventeenth-Century Nonconformist Communities, 255-268
Tamsin Spargo

Armchair Politicians: Elections and Representations, 1774, 269-282
Clare Brant

The Anorexic Body of Liberal Feminism: Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Women, 283-303
Ewa Badowska

The Poetics of Politics: Barrett Browning’s Casa Guidi Windows, 305-324
Esther Schor

“We Would Know Again the Fields. . .”: The Rural Poetry of Elizabeth Campbell, Jane Stevenson, and Mary MacPherson, 325-347
Florence Boos

Reviews

Women and the Book: Assessing the Visual Evidence, edited by Jane H. M. Taylor and Lesley Smith; The Case for Women in Medieval Culture, by Alcuin Blamires; To the Glory of Her Sex: Women’s Roles in the Composition of Medieval Texts, by Joan M. Ferrante, 349-355
Ursula Appelt

Closet Stages: Joanna Baillie and the Theater Theory of British Romantic Women Writers, by Catherine B. Burroughs, 355-357
Hermione de Almeida

Victorian Ghosts in the Noontide: Women Writers and the Supernatural, by Vanessa D. Dickerson, 357-360
Kristin Flieger Samuelian

Elizabeth Gaskell: The Early Years, by John Chapple; Dissembling Fictions: Elizabeth Gaskell and the Victorian Social Text, by Deirdre d’Albertis, 360-362
Elsie B. Michie

Home Fronts: Domesticity and Its Critics in the Antebellum United States, by Lora Romero, 363-364
Laurel Bollinger

Anaïs Nin and the Remaking of Self: Gender, Modernism, and Narrative Identity, by Diane Richard-Allerdyce, 364-366
Heather White

Subject to Negotiation: Reading Feminist Criticism and American Women’s Fictions, by Elaine Neil Orr, 366-367
Kay B. Meyers

Toni Morrison: Critical and Theoretical Approaches, edited by Nancy J. Peterson, 368-370
Richard Hardack

Lesbian Panic: Homoeroticism in Modern British Women’s Fiction, by Patricia Juliana Smith; The Lesbian Menace: Ideology, Identity, and the Representation of Lesbian Life, by Sherrie A. Inness, 371-375
Ann M. Ciasullo

The Diva’s Mouth: Body, Voice, Prima Donna Politics, by Susan J. Leonardi and Rebecca A. Pope, 375-378
D. Britton Gildersleeve

Spring 1998, Vol. 17, No. 1

From the Editor, 7-9
Holly Laird

Archives

Edith Wharton on French Colonial Charities for Women: An Unknown Travel Essay, 11-21
Frederick Wegener

Les Oeuvres de Mme Lyautey au Maroc, 23-27
Edith Wharton

Madame Lyautey’s Charitable Works in Morocco, 29-36
Translated by Louise M. Wills

Articles

I Want to Be You: Envy, the Lacanian Double, and Feminist Community in Margaret Atwood’s The Robber Bride, 37-64
Jean Wyatt

Lesbian Romance Fiction and the Plotting of Desire: Narrative Theory, Lesbian Identity, and Reading Practice, 65-82
Suzanne Juhasz

“Would You Be Ashamed to Let Them See What You Have Written?” The Gendering of Photoplaywrights, 1913-1923, 83-99
Anne Morey

“The Flaw in the Centre”: Writing as Hymenal Rupture in Virginia Woolf’s Work, 101-121
Patricia Moran

From Faux Pas to Faut Pas, or On the Way to The Princess of Clèves, 123-144
Catherine Liu

Reviews

God’s Englishwomen: Seventeenth-Century Radical Sectarian Writing and Feminist Criticism, by Hilary Hinds, 145-146
Elaine V. Beilin

Sappho and the Virgin Mary: Same-Sex Love and the English Literary Imagination, by Ruth Vanita, 146-150
Sharon Marcus

Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters, by Judith Halberstam, 150-153
Maureen F. Curtin

Our Sister Editors: Sarah J. Hale and the Tradition of Nineteenth-Century American Women Editors, by Patricia Okker, 153-155
Mary Bortnyk Rigsby

Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and the Biographical Act, by Charles Caramello; Telling Women’s Lives: The New Biography, by Linda Wagner-Martin, 156-158
Olivia Frey

The Body and the Song: Elizabeth Bishop’s Poetics, by Marilyn May Lombardi; Elizabeth Bishop: Her Poetics of Loss, by Susan McCabe; Exchanging Hats: Paintings by Elizabeth Bishop, edited by William Benton, 158-161
Joanne Feit Diehl

Loving Arms: British Women Writing the Second World War, by Karen Schneider, 161-162
Rhonda Pettit

The Woman’s Hand: Gender and Theory in Japanese Women’s Writing, edited by Paul Gordon Schalow and Janet A. Walker, 162-164
Carol Fairbanks

Francophone African Women Writers: Destroying the Emptiness of Silence, by Irène Assiba d’Almeida, 165-167
Karen Gould

Granny Midwives and Black Women Writers: Double-Dutched Readings, by Valerie Lee; Recovered Writers/Recovered Texts: Race, Class, and Gender in Black Women’s Literature, edited by Dolan Hubbard, 167-169
Linda Seidel

Come As You Are: Sexuality and Narrative, by Judith Roof; Lesbian Configurations, by renée c. hoogland, 170-173
Elizabeth LeBlanc

Fall 1997, Vol. 16, No. 2

From the Editor, 255-257
Holly Laird

Articles

Refiguring the Postcolonial Imagination: Tropes of Visuality in Writing by Rhys, Kincaid, and Cliff, 259-280
Mary Lou Emery

“Like a Hook Fits an Eye”: Jean Rhys, Ford Madox Ford, and the Imperial Operations of Modernist Mentoring, 281-301
Sheila Kineke

Plotting the Mother: Caroline Norton, Helen Huntingdon, and Isabel Vane, 303-325
Elisabeth Rose Gruner

Imagining Women at War: Feminist Strategies in Edith Wharton’s War Writing, 327-343
Claire M. Tylee

Re-Versing the Past: Adrienne Rich’s Postmodern Inquietude, 345-371
Barbara L. Estrin

Reviews

Katie’s Canon: Womanism and the Soul of the Black Community, by Katie Geneva Cannon; The Rising Song of African American Women, by Barbara Omolade, 373-376
Laurel Bollinger

The Fiction of Paule Marshall: Reconstructions of History, Culture, and Gender, by Dorothy Hamer Denniston, 376-377
Kimberly N. Brown

Writing Mothers, Writing Daughters: Tracing the Maternal in Stories by American Jewish Women, by Janet Handler Burstein; Her Face in the Mirror: Jewish Women on Mothers and Daughters, edited by Faye Moskowitz, 377-380
Miriyam Glazer

Impertinent Voices: Subversive Strategies in Contemporary Women’s Poetry, by Liz Yorke, 380-382
Karen Kaivola

The Disobedient Writer: Women and Narrative Tradition, by Nancy A. Walker, 382-383
Molly Hite

Eudora Welty and Virginia Woolf: Gender, Genre, and Influence, by Suzan Harrison, 383-385
Gail Mortimer

Women’s Fiction of the Second World War: Gender, Power and Resistance, by Gill Plain; War, Women, and Poetry, 1914-1945: British and German Writers, by Joan Montgomery Byles, 385-387.
Ann Ardis

Women Editing Modernism: “Little” Magazines and Literary History, by Jayne Marek, 387-389
Margaret D. Stetz

Seeing Together: Friendship Between the Sexes in English Writing, From Mill to Woolf, by Victor Luftig; The Web of Friendship: Marianne Moore and Wallace Stevens, by Robin G. Schulze, 389-91
Joyce Wexler

The Veiled Mirror and the Woman Poet: H. D., Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Bishop, and Louise Glück, by Elizabeth Dodd, 391-393
Tony Trigilio

Imperialism at Home: Race and Victorian Women’s Fiction, by Susan Meyer, 393-395
Lynn M. Alexander

Keeping the Victorian House: A Collection of Essays, edited by Vanessa D. Dickerson, 395-397
Jane Curlin

The World of Hannah More, by Patricia Demers, 397-400
Mitzi Myers

Erotic Dawn-Songs of the Middle Ages, by Grace Sigal, 400-401
Roberta Davidson