FEMINIST ISSUES IN LITERARY SCHOLARSHIP
Beyond the Reaches of Feminist Criticism: A Letter from Paris, 5-27
Shari Benstock
Articles
Women’s Time, Women’s Space: Writing the History of Feminist Criticism, 29-43
Elaine Showalter
The Madwoman and Her Languages: Why I Don’t Do Feminist Literary Theory, 45-59
Nina Baym
Escaping the Sentence: Diagnosis and Discourse in “The Yellow Wallpaper,” 61-77
Paula A. Treichler
Still Practice, A/Wrested Alphabet: Toward a Feminist Aesthetic, 79-97
Jane Marcus
Toward a Women’s Poetics, 99-110
Josephine Donovan
Gender, Values, and Lessing’s Cats, 111-124
Judith Kegan Gardiner
Making—and Remaking—History: Another Look at “Patriarchy”, 125-141
Judith Newton
Feminist Criticism: How Do We Know When We’ve Won?, 143-151
Lillian S. Robinson
Why Communities of Women Aren’t Enough, 153-157
Nina Auerbach
Review Essays
Deconstruction and Feminist Literary Theory, 159-169
Bernard Duyfhuizen
Our Emily Dickinson, 169-178
Nancy Walker
“Turning the Century”: Notes on Women and Difference, 178-185
Hortense Spillers
Reviews
Fictions of Feminine Desire: Disclosures of Heloise, by Peggy Kamuf; Mystic and Pilgrim: The “Book” and the World of Margery Kempe, by Clarissa W. Atkinson, 185-187
Anne R. Larsen
The Poems of Lary Mary Wroth, edited by Josephine A. Roberts, 188-190
M.C. Bradbrook
The Female Wits: Women Playwrights in the Restoration, by Fidelis Morgan; Women Playwrights in England, c. 1363-1750, by Nancy Cotton, 190-194
Laurie A. Finke
Madness and Sexual Politics in the Feminist Novel: Studies in Brontë, Woolf, Lessing, and Atwood, by Barbara Hill Rigney, 194-196
Charles J. Stivale
Beyond the Well of Loneliness: The Fiction of Radclyffe Hall, by Claudia Stillman Franks, 197-199
George Wickes
Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties, by Noel Riley Fitch, 199-201
Carolyn Burke
Vanessa Bell, by Frances Spalding; Vita: The Life of V. Sackville-West, by Victoria Glendinning, 201-206
Barbara Brothers
Katherine Anne Porter: A Life, by Joan Givner; Katherine Anne Porter’s Women: The Eye of Her Fiction, by Jane Krause DeMouy, 206-209
Linda Pannill
Substance Under Pressure: Artistic Coherence and Evolving Form in the Novels of Doris Lessing, by Betsy Draine, 209-210
Bernard Duyfhuizen
Twentieth-Century Women Novelists, edited by Thomas F. Staley, 210-211
Imagination in Confinement: Women’s Writings from French Prisons, by Elissa D Gelfland, 211-213
Charles J. Stivale
Notes
Victoria Cross, 215
Shoshana Knapp
Anna Kavan, 215
Priscilla Diaz-Dorr
Elizabeth Bisland Wetmore, 215
Susan Williams
Letters
Letter from Sally Mitchell, 217