Descript |
xix, 380 p. ; 25 cm. |
Contents |
Preface: On hybridity and rereading -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: Finding Atlantis, and growing into feminism: Becoming a feminist together, and apart: notes on collaboration and idenitity -- Finding Atlantis: thirty years of exploring women's literary traditions in English -- What do feminist critics want? or, A postcard from the volcano -- The education of Henrietta Adams -- A tarantella of theory: Helene Cixous' and Catherine Clement's newly born woman -- Reflections on a (feminist) discourse of discourse, or Look, Ma, I'm talking! -- Part II: Reading and rereading women's writing: 'My name is darkness' : the poetry of self-definition -- "A fine, White flying myth": the life/work of Sylvia Plath -- The wayward nun beneath the hill: Emily Dickinson and the mysteries of womanhood -- Jane Eyre and the secrets of furious lovemaking -- The key to happiness: on Frances Hodgson Burnett's The secret garden --"Dare you see a soul at the White Heat?: Thoughts on a Little home-keeping person" -- Part III: Mother rites: maternity, matriarchy, creativity: From patria to matria: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Risorgimento --"Life's empty pack": notes toward a literary daughteronomy -- Potent Griselda: male modernists and the Great Mother -- Mother rites: maternity, matriarchy, creativity. |
ISBN |
9780393067644 (hbk.) |
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0393067645 (hbk.) |
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