Archives

Fall 2019, Vol. 38, No. 2

From the Editor, 283-284 [full preface]
Jennifer L. Airey

Articles

Reforming Count D’elmont: Masculinity, Sympathy, and Reading in Eliza Haywood’s Love in Excess, 285-311 [abstract]
Mary Beth Harris

The Poetics of Maria Smith Abdy: Wielding the Sword and the Shield, 313-335 [abstract]
Virginia Hromulak

Celebrating and Singing, Bleeding and Pining: Embodiment and Emotion in Walt Whitman and Adah Isaacs Menken, 337-355 [abstract]
Julie McCown

Mary Butts and the “War-fairy-tale”: Femininity, Archaeology, and Great War Rhetoric in Ashe of Rings, 357-379 [abstract]
Angie Blumberg 

Speculative Black Maternity: Fran Ross’s Oreo and Ntozake Shange’s Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo, 381-405 [abstract]
Angela Rovak

Subverting Gender, Patriarchy, and Nation in Carolina De Robertis’s The Gods of Tango, 407-423 [abstract]
Kathryn Quinn-Sánchez

Archives

“Printing books shall eventually be my trade”: Piecing Together the History of Diane di Prima’s Poets Press,  425-433
Jolie Braun

The Academy

When Your Friend Is Also a Mentor: The Mentrix Identity, 435-441
[full text]
Nancy K. Miller

Reviews

Mihrî Hatun: Performance, Gender-Bending, and Subversion in Ottoman Intellectual History, by Didem Havlioğlu, 443-445
Michael D. Sheridan

Women, Rhetoric, and Drama in Early Modern Italy, by Alexandra Coller, 446-448
Caterina Mongiat Farina

Women, Food Exchange, and Governance in Early Modern England, by Madeline Bassnett, 448-450
Elisa Tersigni

Hearing Voices: Aurality and New Spanish Sound Culture in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, by Sarah Finley, 451-453
Colleen R. Baade

Her Voice Will Be on the Side of Right: Gender and Power in Women’s Antebellum Antislavery Fiction, by Holly M. Kent, 453-454
Kara B. Clevinger

Maternal Metaphors of Power in African American Women’s Literature: From Phillis Wheatley to Toni Morrison, by Geneva Cobb Moore, 455-457
Donna Aza Weir-Soley

Self-Harm in New Woman Writing, by Alexandra Gray, 458-459
Casey Cothran

Vivien Leigh: Actress and Icon, edited by Kate Dorney and Maggie B. Gale, 460-462
Laura Engel

Women Fight, Women Write: Texts on the Algerian War, by Mildred Mortimer, 462-465
Patricia Geesey

Spiral of Silence, by Elvira Sánchez-Blake, translated from Spanish by Lorena Terando with a foreword by Debra A. Castillo, 465-467
María Constanza Guzmán

Clever Girls and the Literature of Women’s Upward Mobility, by Mary Eagleton, 467-469
Faye Hammill

The “Ulysses” Delusion: Rethinking Standards of Literary Merit, by Cecilia Konchar Farr, 469-471
Mallory Young

Poetry Matters: Neoliberalism, Affect, and the Posthuman in Twenty-First Century North American Feminist Poetics, by Heather Milne, 471-473
Angela Hume

My Brilliant Friends: Our Lives in Feminism, by Nancy K. Miller, 474-476
Joli Jensen

Spring 2019, Vol. 38, No. 1

LATIN AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS
AND ME TOO FORUM

From the Editor: A Tale of Two Fora, 7-11 [full preface]
Jennifer L. Airey

Articles

Latin American Women Writers

Introduction, 13-15 [full text]
Carolina Alzate, forum editor

Modernity, Editorship, and Readership in Victorian and Colombian Periodicals: The Girl’s Own Paper and Soledad Acosta’s La Mujer, 17-38 [abstract]
Azuvia Licón

Working to Pay for a Room of One’s Own: Modern Women Writers in Latin America, 39-58 [abstract]
Claudia Cabello Hutt

Camila Henríquez Ureña’s Feminist Essays and Literary Criticism: The Trajectory of a Transnational Intellectual, 59-78 [abstract]
Lucía Stecher

Mother Cries: Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Poetics of Maternity, 79-104 [abstract]
Katherine Montwieler

Miscegenation Aesthetics: Marriage, Maternity, and Modernism in the Life and Writing of Margery Latimer, 105-130 [abstract]
Emily Lutenski

Encounters with the Wilderness: Unsettling Perspective in Margaret Atwood’s The Journals of Susanna Moodie, 131-152 [abstract]
Hope Jennings

Archives

Unsettled Accounts: Anna Letitia Barbauld’s Letters to Lydia Rickards, 153-200
Jessica W. H. Lim

The Academy

Me Too Forum

The #MeToo Movement by Committee, 201-204
Kate Krueger [full text]

Consenting to Conflict, 205-214
Corrinne Harol and Teresa Zackodnik [full text]

Institutional Failures in the Rise of #MeToo:
The Perpetuation of Epistemic and Other Harms to
Survivors in Academic Contexts
, 215-223
Heather Stewart

A Long Way to Go: Guarding Female Students in the Chinese Academy, 225-227
Shiqin Chen

#HerToo? Academic Exclusion in the Age of #MeToo, 229-234
Amber Pouliot [full text]

Reviews

Mary Robinson and the Genesis of Romanticism: Literary Dialogues and Debts, 1784-1821, by Ashley Cross, 235-236
Susan Civale

Romantic Women Writers and Arthurian Legend: The Quest for Knowledge, by Katie Garner, 237-238
Clare Broome Saunders

City Folk and Country Folk, by Sofia Khvoshchinskaya, translated from Russian by Nora Seligman Favorov,  238-241
Svetlana Grenier

The Remarkable Kinship of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Ellen Glasgow, by Ashley Andrews Lear, 241-243
Linda Kornasky

Women Writing Cloth: Migratory Fictions in the American Imaginary, by Mary Jo Bona, 243-245
Ann M. Ciasullo

Posthuman Blackness and the Black Female Imagination, by Kristen Lillvis, 246-248
James Arnett

Odious Caribbean Women and the Palpable Aesthetics of Transgression, by Gladys M. Francis, 248-251
Hadley Galbraith

Fall 2018, Vol. 37, No. 2

From the Editor: Abstractions, 265-269 [full preface]
Jennifer L. Airey

Articles

Haberdasher’s Plot: The Romance of Small Trade in Frances Burney’s Fiction, 271-293 [abstract]
Chloe Wigston Smith

Feminist Fancy in the National Tale: Edgeworth, Owenson, and Sarah Isdell’s The Irish Recluse (1809), 295-323 [abstract]
Colleen Taylor

The Wild Work of Gender Play in the Journals of Abby Williams Hill, 325-348 [abstract]
Tiffany Aldrich MacBain

Cultivating Childishness: The Gertrude Stein First Reader and the Reparative Turn in Criticism, 349-375 [abstract]
Julie Taylor

Not With the Program: Sandra Cisneros on Feeling and Being a Latina Writer in the Program Era, 377-396 [abstract]
Corey Hickner-Johnson

The Black Woman as Artist: The Queer Erotics of Rita Dove’s Beulah, 397-418 [abstract]
Kevin Quashie

Between Forster and Gilroy: Race and (Re)connection in Zadie Smith’s NW, 419-434 [abstract]
Jesse van Amelsvoort

Archives

Doris Lessing and the Ethical African Archive, 435-444
James Arnett

Reviews

A Revelation of Purgatory, translated from Middle English by Liz Herbert McAvoy, 445-446
Daniel Anlezark

Two Centuries of Manchu Women Poets: An Anthology, translated from Chinese by Wilt L. Idema, 447-449
Grace S. Fong

The Evolution of the French Courtesan Novel, by Courtney Sullivan,  450-452
Diana Holmes

Romance’s Rivals: Familiar Marriage in Victorian Fiction, by Talia Schaffer, 452-455
Christine L. Krueger

Archives of Labor: Working-Class Women and Literary Culture in the Antebellum United States, by Lori Merish, 455-457
Bill V. Mullen

The Composition of Sense in Gertrude Stein’s Landscape Writing, by Linda Voris, 458-60
Georgina Nugent-Folan

A Curious Peril: H. D.’s Late Modernist Prose, by Lara Vetter, 460-463
Eric Keenaghan

Women’s Writing in Colombia: An Alternative History, by Cherilyn Elson, 463-465
Gina Ponce de León

Spoiling the Stories: The Rise of Israeli Women’s Fiction, by Tamar Merin, 466-468
Orian Zakai

Staging Creolization: Women’s Theater and Performance from the French Caribbean, by Emily Sahakian, 468-471
Tanya L. Shields

Spring 2018, Vol. 37, No. 1

From the Editor: #MeToo, 7-13 [full preface]
Jennifer L. Airey

Articles

Wollstonecraft’s Widow: Understanding the Dead Husband’s Gaze, 15-40 [abstract]
Laura Fairchild Brodie

Species Thinking: Animals, Women, and Literary Tropes in Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 41-66 [abstract]
Adela Ramos

History Repeating: Mothers, Daughters, and Incest in Mary Robinson’s Vancenza and The False Friend, 67-90 [abstract]
Stephanie Russo

“Imperfect Notices”: The 1820 Continental Journal of Mary Wordsworth, 91-110 [abstract]
E. R. Hammack

Antebellum Womanhood and Taming Her “Wild Way”: Pet Keeping, Mourning, and Social Indoctrination in Grace Greenwood’s History of My Pets, 111-129 [abstract]
Elizabeth A. Boyle

“The dance of the intelligence”? Dancing Bodies in Mina Loy, 131-156 [abstract]
Alex Goody

Responding to Patriarchy in India: Resistance and Complicity in Samina Ali’s Madras on Rainy Days and Anita Desai’s Fasting, Feasting, 157-171 [abstract]
Elizabeth Jackson

The Academy

Low-Spoon Teaching: Labor, Gender, and Self-Accommodation in Academia, 173-180 [full essay]
Sara N. Beam and Holly Clay-Buck

Review Essay

Elizabeth Bishop’s Theater of the Inevitable, 181-193 [full essay]
Heather Treseler

Reviews

Women’s Poetry and Poetics in Late Imperial China: A Dialogic Engagement, by Haihong Yang, 195-196
Elena Suet-Ying Chiu

Sin and Salvation in Early Modern France: Three Women’s Stories, by Marguerite d’Auge, Renée Burlamacchi, and Jeanne du Laurens, translated from French by Nicholas van Handel and Collette H. Winn, 197-199
Jane Couchman

Women’s Prophetic Writings in Seventeenth-Century Britain, by Carme Font,  199-201
Claire McGann

Questioning Nature: British Women’s Scientific Writing and Literary Originality, 1750-1830, by Melissa Bailes, 201-203
Lauren Cameron

Byronic Heroes in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing and Screen Adaptation, by Sarah Wootton, 203-206
Cheryl A. Wilson

Sympathy, Madness, and Crime: How Four Nineteenth-Century Journalists Made the Newspaper Business, by Karen Roggenkamp. Women, Work and the Victorian Periodical: Living by the Press, by Marianne Van Remoortel, 206-210
Jennifer Phegley

At Home in the World: Women Writers and Public Life, from Austen to the Present, by Maria DiBattista and Deborah Epstein Nord. Extreme Domesticity: A View from the Margins, by Susan Fraiman, 211-214
Margaret Homans

British Boarding Houses in Interwar Women’s Literature: Alternative Domestic Spaces, by Terri Mullholland, 215-217
Bryony Randall

Off to the Pictures: Cinema-Going, Women’s Writing and Movie Culture in Interwar Britain, by Lisa Stead, 217-220
Laurel Harris

Women Lovers, or The Third Woman, by Natalie Clifford Barney, translated from French by Chelsea Ray, 220-222
Lowry Martin, II

The Subversive Art of Zelda Fitzgerald, by Deborah Pike, 223-225
Christine Grogan

Love and Narrative Form in Toni Morrison’s Later Novels, by Jean Wyatt, 225-228
Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber

The Fiction of Valerie Martin: An Introduction, by Veronica Makowsky, 228-230
Nancy Schoenberger

Latin American Women and the Literature of Madness: Narratives at the Crossroads of Gender, Politics, and the Mind , by Elvira Sánchez-Blake and Laura Kanost. Intersections of Harm: Narratives of Latina Deviance and Defiance, by Laura Halperin, 230-233
María Rosa Olivera-Williams

Fall 2017, Vol. 36, No. 2

YOUNG ADULT WOMEN’S LITERATURE

From the Editors: Young Adult Women’s Literature, 287-294 [full preface]
Jennifer L. Airey and Laura M. Stevens

Articles

The Backfisch and Stories of Female Adolescence, 295-321 [abstract]
Julie Pfeiffer

Black Girls, White Girls, American Girls: Slavery and Racialized Perspectives in Abolitionist and Neoabolitionist Children’s Literature, 323-352 [abstract]
Brigitte Fielder

Kisses, Bitches: Pretty Little Liars Frames Postfeminism’s Adolescent Girl, 353-377 [abstract]
Sarah Whitney

Material Feminism, Adolescent “Becoming,” and Libba Bray’s Beauty Queens, 379-400 [abstract]
Roberta Seelinger Trites

“We are none of us just one thing”: The Posthumanism of Rachel Hartman’s Half-Dragon Saints, 401-422 [abstract]
Carissa Turner Smith

“None of this ‘trapped-in-a-man’s-body’ bullshit”: Transgender Girls and Wrong-Body Discourse in Young Adult Fiction, 423-448 [abstract]
Jennifer Putzi

Archives

The Poetry of Vesta Stephens: In Search of Black Girls’ Gardens, 449-461
LaKisha Michelle Simmons

Review Essay

Reading and Writing Girls: New Contributions to Feminist Scholarship on Children’s and Young Adult Literature, 463-476 [full essay]
Angela Hubler

Reviews

Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century, by Nazera Sadiq Wright, 477-478
Shelby L. Crosby

Truth of My Songs: Poems of the Trobairitz, translated from Provençal by Claudia Keelan, 479-481
Sarah White

Women Writing the English Republic, 1625-1681, by Katharine Gillespie,  482-484
David Norbrook

Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf and Worldly Realism, by Pam Morris, 484-486
Elsie B. Michie

The Political Poetess: Victorian Femininity, Race, and the Legacy of Separate Spheres, by Tricia Lootens, 486-489
Julia Hansen

E. Œ. Somerville and Martin Ross: Female Authorship and Literary Collaboration, by Anne Jamison, 490-492
Holly A. Laird

Style and the Single Girl: How Modern Women Re-Dressed the Novel, 1922-1977, by Hope Howell Hodgkins, 493-495
Jessica Burstein

Lesbian Modernism: Censorship, Sexuality and Genre Fiction, by Elizabeth English, 495-499
Jodie Medd

The Astral H. D.: Occult and Religious Sources and Contexts for H. D.’s Poetry and Prose, by Matte Robinson, 499-501
Victoria Papa

Being Ugly: Southern Women Writers and Social Rebellion, by Monica Carol Miller, 501-503
Laura Patterson

Our Emily Dickinsons: American Women Poets and the Intimacies of Difference, by Vivian R. Pollak, 503-505
Linda Anderson

Women’s Experimental Writing: Negative Aesthetics and Feminist Critique, by Ellen E. Berry, 505-509
Laura Hinton

Veiled Figures: Women, Modernity, and the Spectres of Orientalism, by Teresa Heffernan, 509-512
Roberta Micallef

Women Writers of Gabon: Literature and Herstory, by Cheryl Toman, 512-514
Gladys M. Francis

The Cultural Politics of Chick Lit: Popular Fiction, Postfeminism, and Representation, by Heike Mißler, 514-516
Stephanie Harzewski