Fall 2016, Vol. 35, No. 2

From the Editor: New Beginnings, 337-342 [full preface]
Jennifer L. Airey

Articles

Victorian Sélams and Talking Bouquets: Phallic Invasion of the Feminine/Floral Order, 343-363 [abstract]
Molly Engelhardt

Domesticating Palestine: Elizabeth Champney’s Three Vassar Girls in the Holy Land, 365-394 [abstract]
Molly K. Robey

The Pregnant Body and Utopian Social Organization in Meridel Le Sueur’s The Girl, 395-411 [abstract]
Vanessa Osborne

“Só para mulheres” (Just for women): Alfonsina Storni’s and Clarice Lispector’s Transgression of the Women’s Page, 413-437 [abstract]
Mariela E. Méndez

“Shut your rhetorics in a box”: Gwendolyn Brooks and Lyric Dilemma, 439-462 [abstract]
Julia Bloch

Mourning and Melancholy: Literary Criticism by African American Women, 463-489 [abstract]
Elise Miller

The Ethical Laboratory of Beauty in Zadie Smith’s On Beauty, 491-512 [abstract]
Anna Głąb

Archives

“What strikes the eye”: The Forgotten India Sketches of Maria Graham, 513-520
Lacy Marschalk

The Diaries of Mary Seton Watts (1849-1938) in the Archives at Watts Gallery, Surrey, 521-528
Lucy Ella Rose

Reviews

Recipes for Thought: Knowledge and Taste in the Early Modern English Kitchen, by Wendy Wall, 529-531
Madeline Bassnett

Anglo-American Women Writers and Representations of Indianness, 1629-1824, by Cathy Rex, 531-533
Andrew Newman

The Submerged Plot and the Mother’s Pleasure from Jane Austen to Arundhati Roy, by Kelly A. Marsh,  533-536
Glynis Carr

Margaret Fuller, special issue of Nineteenth-Century Prose, edited by Brigitte Bailey, 536-538
Gary Williams

Archives of Desire: The Queer Historical Work of New England Regionalism, by J. Samaine Lockwood, 539-541
Jana Tigchelaar

Women Ethnographers and Native Women Storytellers: Relational Science, Ethnographic Collaboration, and Tribal Community, by Susan Berry Brill de Ramírez, 541-544
Pauline Turner Strong

Policing Gender and Alicia Giménez Bartlett’s Crime Fiction, by Nina L. Molinaro, 544-546
Sandra Kingery

“How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?”: Women and Jewish American Identity in Contemporary Graphic Memoirs, by Tahneer Oksman, 546-549
Stephen E. Tabachnick

The Lost Garden, by Li Ang, translated from Chinese by Sylvia Li-chun Lin with Howard Goldblatt, 549-551
Liang-ya Liou

Memory at Bay, by Évelyne Trouillot, translated from French by Paul Curtis Daw, 552-554
Laurence Clerfeuille

 

Spring 2016, Vol. 35, No. 1

From the Editor: Women Visible, 7-20 [full preface]
Laura M. Stevens

In Memoriam: Joseph A. Kestner, 21-23 [full text]

Articles

Unsold Peony: The Life and Poetry of Daoist Priestess-Poet Yu Xuanji of Tang China, 25-57 [abstract]
Jinhua Jia

Mary Wollstonecraft, “Ithuriel,” and the Rise of the Feminist Author-Ghost, 59-91 [abstract]
Devoney Looser

Maria Edgeworth on Citizenship: Rousseau, Darwin, and Feminist Pessimism in Practical Education, 93-122 [abstract]
Anne Chandler

Paper Bodies: Letter and Letter Writing in the Early American Novel, 123-144 [abstract]
Kacy Tillman

“A tangled web of mindfuck”: Andrea Dworkin and the Truth of Pornography, 145-171 [abstract]
Magnus Ullén

“I got self, pencil, and notebook”: Literacy and Maternal Desire in Sapphire’s PUSH, 173-199 [abstract]
Marlo D. David

Viewing Feminist Autobiography through a Spatial Lens: A Comparative Approach to Seyran Ateş’s Große Reise ins Feuer, 201-227 [abstract]
Johanna Schuster-Craig

Archives

Seventy-Three Uncollected Short Works by Rebecca Harding Davis: A Bibliography, 229-252
Zachary Turpin

Notes

Shoshana Shababo: The First Sephardic Female Writer in Israel Between Rejection and Acceptance, 253-263
Adi Isha

Reviews

Women’s Voices in Tudor Wills, 1485-1603: Authority, Influence, and Material Culture, by Susan E. James, 265-267
Patricia Phillippy

Grief and Women Writers in the English Renaissance, by Elizabeth Hodgson, 267-268
Marion Wynne-Davies

Phillis Wheatley’s Miltonic Poetics, by Paula Loscocco, 269-271
Mary McAleer Balkun

Bluestocking Feminism and British-German Cultural Transfer, 1750-1837, by Alessa Johns, 271-273
Kirsten Belgum

A Feminine Enlightenment: British Women Writers and the Philosophy of Progress, 1759-1820, by JoEllen DeLucia, 273-275
E. J. Clery

Jane Austen and Animals, by Barbara K. Seeber. Jane Austen’s Erotic Advice, by Sarah Raff, 275-278
Linda V. Troost

Elizabeth Robins Pennell, Nineteenth-Century Pioneer of Modern Art Criticism, by Kimberly Morse Jones, 278-281
Carol Hanbery MacKay

The Lesbian Muse and Poetic Identity, 1889-1930, by Sarah Parker, 281-283
Pearl Chaozon Bauer

Modernist Voyages: Colonial Women Writers in London, 1890-1945, by Anna Snaith, 283-286
David Farley

Love and Liberation: Autobiographical Writings of the Tibetan Buddhist Visionary Sera Khandro, by Sarah H. Jacoby, 286-288
Karma Lekshe Tsomo

Unarrested Archives: Case Studies in Twentieth-Century Canadian Women’s Authorship, by Linda M. Morra, 288-291
Tanis MacDonald

Changing the Subject: Writing Women across the African Diaspora, by K. Merinda Simmons, 291-294
Stephanie Hankinson

Critical Appropriations: African American Women and the Construction of Transnational Identity, by Simone C. Drake, 294-296
Shalini Nadaswaran

Erotic Infidelities: Love and Enchantment in Angela Carter’s “The Bloody Chamber, by Kimberly J. Lau, 296-297
Merja Makinen

Two Confessions, by María Zambrano and Rosa Chacel, translated from Spanish by Noël Valis and Carol Maier, 298-300
Daniela Omlor

Bridging the Divide: The Selected Poems of Hava Pinhas-Cohen, translated from Hebrew by Sharon Hart-Green, 300-302
Ofra Yeglin

Mary Wollstonecraft Sojourner Truth Margaret Atwood Abigail Adams Amy Tan H.D. Simone de Beauvoir Zora Neale Hurston Frances Burney Virginia Woolf

"The white saxifrage with the indented leafe is moste commended for the breakinge of the Stone."

— Turner, Herbal, III, 68 [1568]