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
