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

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