Thomas Mabry Cranfill (1913–1995) was Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. Robert Lanier Clark, Jr. (1934–1996) was a literary critic and writer.

• Preface I. Introduction II. Textual Niceties III. Approaches to the Tale and Its Heroine IV. Effusiveness and Instability V. The Very Coinage of the Brain? VI. The Beauty of Her Passion VII. ’Tis an Accustomed Action with Her VIII. Ecstasy Is Very Cunning IX. Seeing and Not Seeing X. Mystification Kneaded Thick XI. Endless Mystifications and Inductions XII. The Inquisitor and the Saint XIII. Some Bothersome Questions XIV. I Know My Place XV. As a Woman Reads Another XVI. The Best of the Burden? XVII. Mrs. Grose’s Motherly Breast XVIII. Caretakers of the Young XIX. The Harassing Teacher XX. Nurses for the Grimacing, Shrieking Gaoler A Selected Bibliography Index

Thomas Mabry Cranfill (1913–1995) was Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. Robert Lanier Clark, Jr. (1934–1996) was a literary critic and writer.

• Preface I. Introduction II. Textual Niceties III. Approaches to the Tale and Its Heroine IV. Effusiveness and Instability V. The Very Coinage of the Brain? VI. The Beauty of Her Passion VII. ’Tis an Accustomed Action with Her VIII. Ecstasy Is Very Cunning IX. Seeing and Not Seeing X. Mystification Kneaded Thick XI. Endless Mystifications and Inductions XII. The Inquisitor and the Saint XIII. Some Bothersome Questions XIV. I Know My Place XV. As a Woman Reads Another XVI. The Best of the Burden? XVII. Mrs. Grose’s Motherly Breast XVIII. Caretakers of the Young XIX. The Harassing Teacher XX. Nurses for the Grimacing, Shrieking Gaoler A Selected Bibliography Index

Thomas Mabry Cranfill (1913–1995) was Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. Robert Lanier Clark, Jr. (1934–1996) was a literary critic and writer.

• Preface I. Introduction II. Textual Niceties III. Approaches to the Tale and Its Heroine IV. Effusiveness and Instability V. The Very Coinage of the Brain? VI. The Beauty of Her Passion VII. ’Tis an Accustomed Action with Her VIII. Ecstasy Is Very Cunning IX. Seeing and Not Seeing X. Mystification Kneaded Thick XI. Endless Mystifications and Inductions XII. The Inquisitor and the Saint XIII. Some Bothersome Questions XIV. I Know My Place XV. As a Woman Reads Another XVI. The Best of the Burden? XVII. Mrs. Grose’s Motherly Breast XVIII. Caretakers of the Young XIX. The Harassing Teacher XX. Nurses for the Grimacing, Shrieking Gaoler A Selected Bibliography Index