Daughters and Fathers

Lynda E. Boose is an associate professor of English at Dartmouth College. Her publications include "The Father and the Bride in Shakespeare" in PMLA, plus articles in English Literary Renaissance, Philological Quarterly, Modern Philology, Hamlet Studies, Shakespeare Studies, Renaissance Quarterly, Teaching Approaches to "King Lear", and Vietnam in Remission. She is currently writing a book on Othello. Betty S. Flowers is an associate professor of English and director of the Plan II liberal arts honors program at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Browning an the Modern Tradition, coauthor of Four Shields of Power, and editor of The Power of Myth. She has also published poetry, fiction, and articles on Barthelme, Rich, Christina Rossetti, novel writing, and poetry therapy.

Important and ground-breaking contributions... Boose and Flowers have introduced a complicated subject with this excellent collection. Modern Language Review Boose and Flowers have introduced a complicated subject with this excellent collection. Modern Language Review

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I. Cultural FilialogyThe Father's House and the Daughter in It: The Structures of Western Culture's Daughter-Father RelationshipFilia Oedipi: Father and Daughter in Freudian TheoryThe Father's SeductionThe Daughter's Seduction: Sexual Violence and Literary HistoryThe Evolution of Daughter-Father Relationships in Mexican-American Culture"The Permanent Obliquity of an In[pha]llibly Straight:" In the Time of the Daughters and the FathersPart II. In Nomine Patris: The Daughter in Her Father's HouseEngendering the Exemplary Daughter: The Deployment of Sexuality in Richardson's Clarissa"A Daughter of the Puritans" and Her Old Master: Hawthorne, Una, and the Sexuality of RomanceA Father's Prayer, A Daughter's Anger: W. B. Yeats and Sylvia PlathLife's Empty Pack: Notes toward a Literary DaughteronomyChristina Rossetti: Dialogue with the Father GodPart III. In Nomine Filiae: The Artist as Her Father's DaughterThe Clergyman's Daughters: Anne Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George EliotMurderous Poetics: Dickinson, the Father, and the TextCam the Wicked: Woolf's Portrait of the Artist as Her Father's Daughter"The Skies and Trees of the Past": Anne Thackeray Ritchie and William Makepeace ThackerayMale Narcissism, Capitalism, and the Daughter of The Man Who Loved ChildrenErasing the Stigma of Daughterhood: Mary I, Elizabeth I, and Henry VIIIAfterwordNotes on IllustrationsWorks CitedNotes on Contributors