From the Editor, 225-228
Holly Laird

Articles

The Reenchantment of Utopia and the Female Monarchical Self: Margaret Cavendish’s Blazing World, 229-245
Rachel Trubowitz

A Wizard Cultivator: Zelda Fitzgerald’s Save Me the Waltz As Asylum Autobiography, 247-264
Mary E. Wood

Striking Back at the (Roman) Empire: The Artist as Classicist in Stead and Others, 265-287
Amy Richlin

Permeable Boundries and the Mother-Function in L’Asphyxie, 289-307
Eileen Boyd Sivert

Feminine Perspectives at Laguna Pueblo: Silko’s Ceremony, 309-328
Edith Swan

Notes

Where Does Q Leave Mr. Ramsay?, 329-336
Sandra M. Donaldson

Review Essays

Re-viewing the Renaissance, 337-347
Margaret Ferguson

“It Behooves Us to Struggle,” 349-354
Frances Smith Foster

The Essentials of Lesbian Studies, 355-361
Judith Roof

Reviews

Tradition and the Talents of Women, edited by Florence Howe, 363-366
Sandra M. Gilbert

The Contours of Masculine Desire: Romanticism and the Rise of Women’s Poetry, by Marlon B. Ross, 366-367
Mary A. Favret

Sexual Suspects: Eighteenth-Century Players and Sexual Ideology, by Kristina Straub, 368-370
Deborah Kaplan

The Excellence of Falsehood: Romance, Realism, and Women’s Contribution to the Novel, by Deborah Ross, 370-371.
George E. Haggerty

Gender and Representation: Women in Spanish Realist Fiction, by Lou Charnon-Deutsch, 371-373
James D. Fernández

Figures of Ill Repute: Representing Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century France, by Charles Bernheimer; Barbara. Decadent Genealogies: The Rhetoric of Sickness from Baudelaire to D’Annunzio, by Spackman, 373-377
Thaïs E. Morgan

Arms and the Woman: War, Gender, and Literary Representation, edited by Helen M. Cooper, Adrienne Auslander Munich, and Susan Merrill Squier, 377-379
Margaret D. Stetz

Women Poets and the American Sublime, by Joanne Feit Diehl; Signets: Reading H. D., edited by Susan Stanford Friedman and Rachel Blau DuPlessis; A Gulf So Deeply Cut: American Women Poets and the Second World War, by Susan Schweik, 380-382
Helen V. Emmitt

The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present, edited by Virginia Blaine, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, 383-386
Jocelyn Harris

From the Editor, 7-10
Holly Laird

Articles

First Persons Plural in Contemporary Feminist Fiction, 11-29
Adalaide Morris

Beloved’s Narrative: Writing Mother’s Milk, 31-46
Lorraine Liscio

Forum: South African Women Writing

Preface, 47-49
Cecily Lockett

South African Women’s Poetry: A Gynocritical Perspective, 51-61
Cecily Lockett

Metonymies of Colonialism in Four Handsome Negresses, 63-78
Wendy Woodward

Black Women Poets in Exile: The Weapon of Words, 79-93
Lynda Gilfillan

Black Women Do Not Have Time to Dream: The Politics of Time and Space, 95-102
Pamela Ryan

Two Women and Their Territories: Sheila Roberts and Miriam Tlali, 103-111
Margaret Lenta

Tradition and Transformation: One Never Knows, 113-123
Miki Flockemann

Reviews

Wild Women in the Whirlwind: Afra-American Culture and the Contemporary Literary Renaissance, edited by Joanne M. Braxton and Andree Nicola McLaughlin; Race, Gender, and Desire: Narrative Strategies in the Fiction of Toni Cade Bambara, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker, by Elliott Butler-Evans; The Other Side of the Story: Structures and Strategies of Contemporary Feminist Narratives, by Molly Hite, 125-128
Claudia Tate

Claiming the Heritage: African-American Women Novelists and History, by Missy Dehn Kubitschek, 128-129
Sally L. Kitch

The Gender of Modernism: A Critical Anthology, edited by Bonnie Kime Scott, 130-131
Susan Gubar

Women’s Writing in Exile, edited by Mary Lynn Broe and Angela Ingram, 131-133
Margaret Higonnet

H. G. Wells and Rebecca West, by J. R. Hammond, 133-137
Margaret D. Stetz

Jean Rhys at “World’s End”: Novels of Colonial and Sexual Exile, by Mary Lou Emery, 137-139
Ashley Stockstill

Victorian Sages and Cultural Discourse: Renegotiating Gender and Power, edited by Thaïs E. Morgan, 139-140
Nina Auerbach

The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England, by Sylvia Harcstark Myers; Raising Their Voices: British Women Writers, 1650-1750, by Marilyn L. Williamson; Gender at Work: Four Women Writers of the Eighteenth Century, edited and introduction by Ann Messenger; Women’s Lives and the 18th-Century English Novel, by Elizabeth Berger Brophy; The Courtship Novel, 1740-1820: A Feminized Genre, by Katherine Sobba Green, 141-145
Mary Anne Schofield

New Readings on Women in Old English Literature, edited by Helen Damico and Alexandra Hennessey Olsen, 145-147
Nona Fienberg

Irish Women Writers: An Uncharted Tradition, Ann Owens Weekes, 147-148
Mary O’Toole

Engendering Men: The Question of Male Feminist Criticism, edited by Joseph A. Boone and Michael Cadden, 148-149
George Haggerty