A Note from the Acting Editor, 5-7
Mary O’Toole
Articles
Defining the Domestic Genre: English Women Novelists of the 1850s, 9-25
Monica Correa Fryckstedt
Indecent Liberties with a Poet: Audience and the Metaphor of Rape in Killigrew’s “Upon the saying that my Verses” and Pope’s Arbuthnot, 27-45
Kristina Straub
Voice as Fossil: Madame de Staël’s Corinne or Italy: An Archaeology of Feminine Discourse, 47-60
Marie-Claire Vallois
“Womens Speaking Justified”: The Feminine Quaker Voice, 1662-1797, 61-77
Mary Anne Schofield
Woman as Ghost in Cynthia Asquith: Ghostly Fiction and Autobiography, 79-96
Ruth Weston
Review Essay
Latin American Women Writers: Into the Mainstream (At Last), 97-107
Patricia Klingenberg
Reviews
Feminist Theory: The Intellectual Traditions of American Feminism, by Josephine Donovan; Gender Politics, by Ethel Klein; Crossing the Double-Cross: The Practice of Feminist Criticism, by Elizabeth A. Meese; Gender and Reading: Essays on Readers, Texts, and Contexts, edited by Elizabeth A. Flynn and Patrocinio P. Schweickart, 109-116
Carol E. Klein
Hester Thrale Piozzi: Portrait of a Literary Woman, by William McCarthy, 116-119
Melinda Sansone
Female Friendships and Communities: Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, by Pauline Nestor; Victorian Writing and Working Women: The Other Side of Silence, by Julia Swindells, 119-121
Nina Auerbach
Bearing the Word: Language and Female Experience in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing, by Margaret Homans, 121-122
Lynn M. Alexander
German Women in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A Social and Literary History, edited by Ruth-Ellen B. Joeres and Mary Jo Maynes, 122-123
Barbara Hyams
Contemporary American Women Writers: Narrative Strategies, edited by Catherine Rainwater and William J. Scheick; Black and White Women of the Old South: The Peculiar Sisterhood in American Literature, by Minrose G. Gwin, 123-125
Susan Resneck Parr
The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions, by Paula Gunn Allen, 125-126
Melody Graulich
The Southern Belle in the American Novel, by Kathryn Lee Seidel, 127-128
Susan Millar Williams
A Feminist Dictionary, by Cheris Kramarae and Paula A. Treichler, with assistance from Ann Russo, 128-129
Sally McConnell-Ginet
Ordinary Families, by E. Arnot Robertson, 129-133
Jane Marcus
The Chinese Garden, by Rosemary Manning, 133-135
Jane Marcus
