POLITICAL DISCOURSE / BRITISH WOMEN’S WRITING, 1640-1867

Introduction, 207-11
Teresa Feroli

Articles

A Hammer in Her Hand: The Separation of Church from State and the Early Feminist Writings of Katherine Chidley, 213-233
Katharine Gillespie

Invasions: Prophecy and Bewitchment in the Case of Margaret Muschamp, 235-253
Diane Purkiss

The Fathers’ Seductions: Improper Relations of Desire in Seventeenth-Century Nonconformist Communities, 255-268
Tamsin Spargo

Armchair Politicians: Elections and Representations, 1774, 269-282
Clare Brant

The Anorexic Body of Liberal Feminism: Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Women, 283-303
Ewa Badowska

The Poetics of Politics: Barrett Browning’s Casa Guidi Windows, 305-324
Esther Schor

“We Would Know Again the Fields. . .”: The Rural Poetry of Elizabeth Campbell, Jane Stevenson, and Mary MacPherson, 325-347
Florence Boos

Reviews

Women and the Book: Assessing the Visual Evidence, edited by Jane H. M. Taylor and Lesley Smith; The Case for Women in Medieval Culture, by Alcuin Blamires; To the Glory of Her Sex: Women’s Roles in the Composition of Medieval Texts, by Joan M. Ferrante, 349-355
Ursula Appelt

Closet Stages: Joanna Baillie and the Theater Theory of British Romantic Women Writers, by Catherine B. Burroughs, 355-357
Hermione de Almeida

Victorian Ghosts in the Noontide: Women Writers and the Supernatural, by Vanessa D. Dickerson, 357-360
Kristin Flieger Samuelian

Elizabeth Gaskell: The Early Years, by John Chapple; Dissembling Fictions: Elizabeth Gaskell and the Victorian Social Text, by Deirdre d’Albertis, 360-362
Elsie B. Michie

Home Fronts: Domesticity and Its Critics in the Antebellum United States, by Lora Romero, 363-364
Laurel Bollinger

Anaïs Nin and the Remaking of Self: Gender, Modernism, and Narrative Identity, by Diane Richard-Allerdyce, 364-366
Heather White

Subject to Negotiation: Reading Feminist Criticism and American Women’s Fictions, by Elaine Neil Orr, 366-367
Kay B. Meyers

Toni Morrison: Critical and Theoretical Approaches, edited by Nancy J. Peterson, 368-370
Richard Hardack

Lesbian Panic: Homoeroticism in Modern British Women’s Fiction, by Patricia Juliana Smith; The Lesbian Menace: Ideology, Identity, and the Representation of Lesbian Life, by Sherrie A. Inness, 371-375
Ann M. Ciasullo

The Diva’s Mouth: Body, Voice, Prima Donna Politics, by Susan J. Leonardi and Rebecca A. Pope, 375-378
D. Britton Gildersleeve

From the Editor, 7-9
Holly Laird

Archives

Edith Wharton on French Colonial Charities for Women: An Unknown Travel Essay, 11-21
Frederick Wegener

Les Oeuvres de Mme Lyautey au Maroc, 23-27
Edith Wharton

Madame Lyautey’s Charitable Works in Morocco, 29-36
Translated by Louise M. Wills

Articles

I Want to Be You: Envy, the Lacanian Double, and Feminist Community in Margaret Atwood’s The Robber Bride, 37-64
Jean Wyatt

Lesbian Romance Fiction and the Plotting of Desire: Narrative Theory, Lesbian Identity, and Reading Practice, 65-82
Suzanne Juhasz

“Would You Be Ashamed to Let Them See What You Have Written?” The Gendering of Photoplaywrights, 1913-1923, 83-99
Anne Morey

“The Flaw in the Centre”: Writing as Hymenal Rupture in Virginia Woolf’s Work, 101-121
Patricia Moran

From Faux Pas to Faut Pas, or On the Way to The Princess of Clèves, 123-144
Catherine Liu

Reviews

God’s Englishwomen: Seventeenth-Century Radical Sectarian Writing and Feminist Criticism, by Hilary Hinds, 145-146
Elaine V. Beilin

Sappho and the Virgin Mary: Same-Sex Love and the English Literary Imagination, by Ruth Vanita, 146-150
Sharon Marcus

Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters, by Judith Halberstam, 150-153
Maureen F. Curtin

Our Sister Editors: Sarah J. Hale and the Tradition of Nineteenth-Century American Women Editors, by Patricia Okker, 153-155
Mary Bortnyk Rigsby

Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and the Biographical Act, by Charles Caramello; Telling Women’s Lives: The New Biography, by Linda Wagner-Martin, 156-158
Olivia Frey

The Body and the Song: Elizabeth Bishop’s Poetics, by Marilyn May Lombardi; Elizabeth Bishop: Her Poetics of Loss, by Susan McCabe; Exchanging Hats: Paintings by Elizabeth Bishop, edited by William Benton, 158-161
Joanne Feit Diehl

Loving Arms: British Women Writing the Second World War, by Karen Schneider, 161-162
Rhonda Pettit

The Woman’s Hand: Gender and Theory in Japanese Women’s Writing, edited by Paul Gordon Schalow and Janet A. Walker, 162-164
Carol Fairbanks

Francophone African Women Writers: Destroying the Emptiness of Silence, by Irène Assiba d’Almeida, 165-167
Karen Gould

Granny Midwives and Black Women Writers: Double-Dutched Readings, by Valerie Lee; Recovered Writers/Recovered Texts: Race, Class, and Gender in Black Women’s Literature, edited by Dolan Hubbard, 167-169
Linda Seidel

Come As You Are: Sexuality and Narrative, by Judith Roof; Lesbian Configurations, by renée c. hoogland, 170-173
Elizabeth LeBlanc