Faith of a (Woman) Writer

ALICE KESSLER-HARRIS is Professor of History at Hofstra University where she co-directs the Center for the Study of Work and Leisure.WILLIAM MCBRIEN is Professor of English at Hofstra University, and editor, of the scholarly journal, Twentieth Century Literature.

• Introduction The (Woman) Writer by Joyce Carol Oates Joyce Carol Oates's The Dead and Feminist Criticism by Elaine Showalter Acts of Self-Creation: Female Identity in the Novels of Margaret Drabble by Anne Golomb Hoffman "Grave Endearing Traditions": Edith Wharton and the Domestic Novel by Jeanne Boydston Margaret Atwood, Margaret Laurence, and Their Nineteenth-Century Forerunners by Ann Edwards Boutelle The Poetic World of Snezhina Slavova by Yuri V. Karageorge Kay Boyel: In a Woman's Voice by Sandra Whipple Spanier Two Women: The Transformations by Alison Rieke Effects of Urbanization in the Novels of Christiane Rochefort by Anne D. Cordero Irmgard Keun: A German Deviation by Livia Z. Wittmann Charolette Bronte, Emily Bronte, and Jean Rhys: What Rhy's Letters Show about that Relationship by Joan Givner Literary Criticism by Catherine R. Stimpson Miles Franklin: Chronicler of the Australian Bush and Early Feminist by Paulette Rose Edna St. Vincent Millay--Saint of the Modern Sonnet by Jean Gould Domestic Comedy, Black Comedy, and Real Life: Shirley Jackson, A Woman Writer by Lynette Carpenter Records of Survival: The Autobiographical Writings of Marieluise Fleisser and Marie Luise Kaschnitz by Ruth-Ellen B. Joeres Jhabvala's Fiction: The Passage from India by Charmazel Dudt Luise Rinser's Autobiographical Prose: Political Engagement and Feminist Awareness by Elke Frederiksen Women and Choice--A New Look at Simone de Beauvoir and The Second Sex by Carol Ascher Virginia, Virginius, Virginity by Louise A. DeSalvo Sexual Politics and Female Heroism in the Novels of Christina Stead by Louise Yelin Agnes Smedley's "Cell Mates": A Writer's Discovery of Voice, Form, and Subject in Prison by Judith A. Scheffler The Transformation of Privilage in the Work of Elena Poniatowska by Bell Gale Chevigny Marguerite Yourcenar's Sexual Politics in Fiction, 1939 by Judith L. Johnston A Way of Ordering Experience: A Study of Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Sula by Robert Sargent A Voice of Authority by Jane Marcus Charlotte Delbo, A Woman/Book by Rosette C. Lamont The Case of the Dangling Signifier: Phallic Imagery in Eudora Welty's "Moon Lake" by Patricia S. Yaeger An End to Torment: H.D.'s Metonymic Course by Paul Smith Leslie Stephen Revisited: A New Fragment of Virginia Woolf's "A Sketch of the Past" by Katherine C. Hill-Miller Defeating the False God: Janie's Self-Determination in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God by Gay Wilentz The Woman Warrior: Claiming Narrative Power, Recreating Female Selfhood by Joanne S. Frye In Search of "Ordinary Human Happiness": Rebellion and Affirmation Mary Gordon's Novels by Susan Ward Program