Fall 1986, Vol. 5, No. 2

Women’s Literary History: To Be Continued, 165-184
Shari Benstock

Articles

Interrupted Friendships in Jane Austen’s Emma, 185-202
Ruth Perry

Gender and Genre Anxiety: Elizabeth Barrett Browning and H.D. as Epic Poets, 203-228
Susan Stanford Friedman

Burning Down the House: Sara Coleridge, Virginia Woolf, and the Politics of Literary Revision, 229-250
Bradford K. Mudge

The Rhetoric of Marginality: Why I Do Feminist Theory, 251-272
Laurie Finke

Review Essays

Conceptualizing Women’s Literary History: Reflections on The Norton Anthology of Literature By Women, 273-287
Sandra A. Zagarell

The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: Is There Class in This Text?, 289-302
Lillian S. Robinson

A Philosophy of Questions: Feminist Theory and the Politics of Enunciation, 303-312
Jane Marie Todd

Reviews

Silent But for the Word: Tudor Women as Patrons, Translators, and Writers of Religious Works, edited by Margaret P. Hannay, 313-314
Joyce Monroe Simmons

First Feminists: British Women Writers, 1578-1799, edited by Moira Ferguson, 314-316
Mitzi Myers

Phillis Wheatley and Her Writings, by William H. Robinson, 316-318
Norman S. Grabo

Reading the Romantic Heroine: Text, History, Ideology, by Leslie W. Rabine, 318-319
Scott Simpkins

Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction 1790-1860, by Jane Tompkins, 319-321
Kate Meyers

With Ears Opening Like Morning Glories: Eudora Welty and the Love of Storytelling, by Carol S. Manning, 321-323
Ruth Weston

Feminist Scholarship: Kindling in the Groves of Academe, by Ellen Carol DuBois, Gail Paradise Kelley, Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy, Carolyn W. Korsmeyer, and Lillian S. Robinson, 323-324
Margaret A. Lourie

Jean Rhys, by Carole Angier; Jean Rhys, by Arnold E. Davidson, 324-326
Joan Seay

Notes

Ridding Unwanted Suitors: Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park and Charlotte Smith’s Emmeline, 327-329
Eleanor Ty

Spring 1986, Vol. 5, No. 1

Representing Reality: Women Writers and Institutions, 5-12
Shari Benstock

Articles

Feminism and Deconstruction: Re-Constructing the Elegy, 13-27
Celeste M. Schenck

The Mirror and its Reflections: Marguerite de Navarre’s Biblical Feminism, 29-39
Paula Sommers

Louise Michel’s Poetry of Existence and Revolt, 41-61
Charles J. Stivale

Out of the Chrysalis: Female Initiation and Female Authority in Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out, 63-90
Christine Froula

Is There Life After Art? The Metaphysics of Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping, 91-109
Joan Kirby

Review Essay

On Black Literary Women and the Evolution of Critical Discourse, 111-123
Claudia Tate

Reviews

Dorothy Wordsworth, by Robert Gittings and Jo Manton, 125
Donald E. Hayden

Virginia Woolf’s “The Years”: The Evolution of a Novel, by Grace Radin; Virginia Woolf and London: The Sexual Politics of the City, by Susan Merrill Squier, 126-127
Panthea Reid Broughton

Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain, by George Ballard, edited and introduction by Ruth Perry, 127-128
Jeslyn Medoff

The Enclosed Garden: Women and Community in the Evangelical South, 1830-1930, by Jean E. Friedman, 129-130
Susan Millar Williams

Men and Feminism in Modern Literature, by Declan Kiberd, 130-132
Mary O’Toole

Archives

Women Writers in McFarlin Library Special Collections, 133-143
Priscilla Dorr

Letters

Letter from Jane Marcus, 147

Mary Wollstonecraft Sojourner Truth Margaret Atwood Abigail Adams Amy Tan H.D. Simone de Beauvoir Zora Neale Hurston Frances Burney Virginia Woolf

"The white saxifrage with the indented leafe is moste commended for the breakinge of the Stone."

— Turner, Herbal, III, 68 [1568]