The Adoption Issue

From the Editor, 227-230
Holly Laird

Articles

Preface, 231-236
Holly Laird

One’s Own: Reflections on Motherhood, Owning, and Adoption, 237-255 [abstract]
Janet Beizer

Adoption and Essentialism, 257-274 [abstract]
Margaret Homans

Ending in the Middle: Revisioning Adoption in Binjamin Wilkomirski’s Fragments and Anne Michaels’s Fugitive Pieces, 275-300 [abstract]
Barbara L. Estrin

Papadada: Reinventing the Family, 301-317 [abstract]
Andrew Elfenbein and John Watkins

All of Us Are Real: Old Images in a New World of Adoption, 319-331 [abstract]
Susan Bordo

Dolphins, Dying Rooms, and Destablized Demographics, Or: Loving Anna in a Transmodern World, 333-345 [abstract]
Alice Jardine

Archives

Ann Yearsley and the Politics of Patronage: The Thorp Arch Archive, Part I, 346-392
Frank Felsenstein

Reviews

Imagining Adoption: Essays on Literature and Culture, edited by Marianne Novy, 393-395
J. M. Baker, Jr.

Doing Time: Feminist Theory and Postmodern Culture, by Rita Felski, 396-399
Jennifer L. Fleissner

British Women’s Comic Fiction, 1890-1990: Not Drowning, But Laughing, by Margaret D. Stetz; Women, Modernism, and British Poetry, 1910-1939: Resisting Femininity, by Jane Dowson, 399-402
Laura Severin

Contemporary Women’s Poetry: Reading/Writing/Practice, edited by Alison Mark and Deryn Rees-Jones, 402-404
Steven Gould Axelrod

A Gendered Collision: Sentimentalism and Modernism in Dorothy Parker’s Poetry and Fiction, by Rhonda S. Pettit, 404-405
Suzanne L. Bunkers

Staging Domesticity: Household Work and English Identity in Early Modern Drama, by Wendy Wall, 405-407
Nancy Bunker

Feminist Metafiction and the Evolution of the British Novel, by Joan Douglas Peters, 407-409
Theresa Braunschneider

Home Matters: Longing and Belonging, Nostalgia and Mourning in Women’s Fiction, Roberta Rubinstein, 410-411
Pauline T. Newton

Spiritual Interrogations: Culture, Gender, and Community in Early African American Women’s Writing, by Katherine Clay Bassard, 411-414
Katy L. Chiles