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Table of Contents: “…Gender, creativity, and the woman poet /…”

“…Studies in gender and culture,…”

Table of Contents: “…The Queen's looking glass: female creativity, male images of women, and the metaphor of literary paternity -- Infection in the sentence: the women writer and the anxiety of authorship -- The parables of the cave -- Shut up in prose: gender and genre in Austen's Juvenilia -- Jane Austen's cover story (and its secret agents) -- Milton's bogey: patriarchal poetry and women readers -- Horror's twin: Mary Shelley's monstrous Eve -- Looking oppositely: Emily Brontë's bible of hell -- A secret, inward wound: The professor's pupil -- A dialogue of self and soul: plain Jane's progress -- The genesis of hunger, according to Shirley -- The buried life of Lucy Snowe -- Made keen by loss: George Eliot's veiled vision -- George Eliot as the angel of destruction -- The aesthetics of renunciation -- A woman, white: Emily Dickinson's yarn of pearl.…”

Table of Contents: “…Angel of devastation: Edith Wharton on the arts of the enslaved -- Lighting out for the territories: Willa Cather's lost horizons -- III. Reinventing gender. "She meant what I said": lesbian double talk -- Soldier's heart: literary men, literary women, and the great war -- Cross-dressing and re-dressing: transvestism as metaphor.…”