...Fiona Somerset Her Life Historical: Exemplarity and Female Saints' Lives in Late Medieval England . By Catherine Sanok. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. xvii + 256 pp. University of Washington 2009 Fiona Somerset is associate professor of English at Duke...

...,and autobiography. “Books and Bad Company”: Reading the Female Plot in Teresa de la Parra’s IŽgenia Kristine Byron La pretendida autora de esa nueva IÞgenia . . . [c]ometió es cierto, la horrible indiscreción de hacer editar en París bajo su nombre, ese diario íntimo que yo había...

... monograph with an analysis of female cross-dressing as a social practice, Shapiro displays his interest in the interconnectedness of social and dramatic practice. Despite the mistaken view of the Idondon courts, most of the real-life examples of female cross-dressing in early rnod- ern England were...

...Patricia Meyer Spacks Terry Castle. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. 278 pp. $35.00 cloth, $16.95 paper. Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 5’0 MLQ I September 1996 The Female Thermometer: Eighteenth-Century Culture...

... “Lohenstein’s Protagonists,”4 has done himself a disservice with this book. DAVIDBRONSEN Washington University Their Proper Sphere: A Study of the Bronte Sisters as Early-Victorian Female Novelists. By INCA-STINAEWBANK. Cambridge: Harvard...

... to any understanding of Coleridge’s intellectual life. SUSANJ. WOLFSON Rutgers University, New Brunswick Female Friendships and Communities: Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, E limbeth Gaskell. By PAULINENESTOR. Oxford: Clarendon Press...

...: Lariguuge and Female Experience in Nineteenth-CerituT Women k Writing. By MARGARETHOMANS. Chicago and London: University of Chi- cago Press, Women in Culture and Society, 1986. xiv + 326 pp. $22.00. At least since Virginia Woolf remarked on the shape of.Jane Austen’s sentence, people have...

...: Intertextuality, Sexuality, and the Emergence of Female Modernism in The Voyage Out, The Village in the Jungle, and Heart of Darkness Mark A. Wollaeger n A Room of One’s Own (1929) Virginia Woolf advises women writers I to “think back” through their mothers, but the tortuous composition...

... colonial encounters and has recently completed a book titled Prolepses:Queer/Early/Modern . © 2004 University of Washington 2004 Queer Nation, Female Nation: Marguerite de Navarre, Incest, and the State in Early Modern France Carla Freccero ollowing Foucault, feminist scholars...

... this article is derived, is a study of intersections between literature and music culture in late Georgian Britain. University of Washington 2006 The Female Penseroso: Anna Seward, Sociable Poetry, and the Handelian Consensus Gillen D’Arcy Wood hey called it “Handelomania.”1 In June...

... are characterized by an unabashed, unprecedented foregrounding of female sexuality. While their novels were censored by the state now and then, they circulate on the Internet and contribute to the formation of China's booming Internet literature. The initial core group of beauty writers has made a large impact...

... by erasing the female voice. This essay instead explores parallels between Wroth’s poem and the metamorphosis of the Heliades, who turn into poplars while mourning their brother Phaeton in book 2 of the Metamorphoses . Their transformation is predicated on an act of female speech, however precarious...

... and their acute attention to the role of women, particularly daughters, within the patriarchal family and its attendant economic systems. They share Woolf’s interest in the economic, inheritable underpinnings of female authority, the social forms of a patrilineal culture that help demarcate the possibilities...

... of the novel’s conception of reality in the Mexican borderlands: first, the Ciudad Juárez femicides as objects of representation; second, the economic conditions underlying the systemic violence perpetrated against female maquiladora workers and the rift between labor and capital; and third, the relation of art...

... the complex experiences of Chinese women in their search for modernity. The Nora figures in Chinese problem plays are symbols of individualism and subjectivism. The women in Cao Yu's plays, whose education is informed by feminist ideas, become subjects of their desires for consumption and love. The female...

... the most profound unit of meaning for political and cultural phenomena, especially nov- els by women. Departing from Gaskell’s narrative of female experi- ence, this essay will examine the use of “experience” in the history of BrontE criticism. Finally, a reading of BrontE’s fictional autobiography...

..., there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female” (3.28). Identifying themselves as the voice of Christian virtue, answerable to no merely mortal male, Mary Bosanquet Fletcher, Sarah Crosby, Susanna Wesley, Sarah Cox, Frances Pawson, Hester Ann Rogers, Mary...

... in Christine de Pizan (who is often considered the first professional female writer and a “forerunner” of feminism), the contribution of this highly educated fifteenth-century author to the history of rhetoric has remained largely unexplored.’ In this essay, I propose to reread the Cite...

... it fix. And interest in reversing loss. This is an allegorical essay in several chapters concern- ing one part of the apparatus of poesis: the beloved female muse and her work. It is a sociopoetical intervention, sometimes a little willful. The labor concealed in poetry is not only the labor...

... life and rele- vance to the works of these female authors, who remain far too often unread even by specialists. What some might too cavalierly dismiss as a cultural nar- cissism that turns the past into the mirror or into an ever-pleasing image of the self must certainly be recognized...