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The Woman in the Window : Commerce, Consensual Fantasy, and the Quest for Masculine Virtue in the Russian Novel / by Valentino, Russell Scott, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: In search of (Russian) virtue -- Three modern characters : the double, the con man, and the woman in the window -- The commercial ethic in Gogol's Dead souls -- In search of the virtuous man : minor readings -- Lara, Lolita, and other things that start with L -- Conclusion: DeLillo's Cosmopolis and the end of an idiom.…”
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From Old Woman to Older Women : Contemporary Culture and Women's Narratives / by Chivers, Sally, 1972-

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I Made You to Find Me : The Coming of Age of the Woman Poet and the Politics of Poetic Address / by Hedley, Jane

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Adventures of the Spirit : The Older Woman in the Works of Doris, Lessing, Margaret Atwood, and Other Contemporary Women Writers /

Table of Contents: “…Surviving the colonialist legacy of the Klondike Gold Rush : a native woman elder's liberatory and integrative storytelling turn /…”
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Early Film Theories in Italy, 1896-1922 /

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Eat My Dust : Early Women Motorists / by Clarsen, Georgine, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Movement in a minor key : dilemmas of the woman motorist -- A war product : the British motoring girl and her garage -- A car made by English ladies for others of their sex : the feminist factory and the lady's car -- Transcontinental travel : the politics of automobile consumption in the United States -- Campaigns on wheels : American automobiles and a suffrage of consumption -- "The woman who does" : a Melbourne women's motor garage -- Driving Australian modernity : conquering Australia by car -- Machines as the measure of women : Cape-to-Cairo by automobile.…”
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The Other Side of the Story : Structures and Strategies of Contemporary Feminist Narratives / by Hite, Molly, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Writing in the margins: Jean Rhys -- The future in a different shape: broken form and possibility in The golden notebook -- Romance, marginality, matrilineage: The color purple -- Other side, other woman: Lady oracle.…”
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Wives, Mothers, and the Red Menace : Conservative Women and the Crusade against Communism / by Brennan, Mary C.

Table of Contents: “…-- Women beware : the feminine view of foreign communism -- Women arise : the red threat on the domestic scene -- Manly men and the little woman : gender and anticommunism.…”
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The Intersecting Realities and Fictions of Virginia Woolf and Colette / by Southworth, Helen

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the bluestocking and the schoolgirl -- A dense network of friends -- "Ces deux opiniâtres amies" : reading Colette's Le pur et l'impur as a response to Woolf's A room of one's own -- In pursuit of Woolf's 'woman's sentence' in Colette's La vagabonde, Duo, and Le toutounier -- Fathers in the first fictions of Woolf and Colette -- Reading across the Channel : the reception of Woolf's and Colette's work in England and in France -- A dining room of one's own : Woolf and Colette on food and sex -- Appendix 1. …”
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Figures of the World : The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form / by Hill, Christopher L., 1964-

Table of Contents: “…The Degenerate Body -- The Genealogy of the Naturalist Body -- Nerves and Cracks -- The Story of the Leg -- Translating Gervaise -- Jaws and Fists, the Chin and That Hair -- The Civilized Nerve -- The Transformation of Mimesis -- 3. The Unbound Woman -- Cipher Assembled -- The Birth of the Nana Figure -- Enclosing an Enigma -- Individuality without Content…”
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Experiencing Fiction : Judgments, Progressions, and the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative / by Phelan, James, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Judgments, progressions, and the rhetorical experience of narrative -- Jane Austen's experiment in narrative comedy : the beginning and early middle of Persuasion -- Sethe's choice and Toni Morrison's strategies : the beginning and middle of Beloved -- Chicago criticism, new criticism, cultural thematics, and rhetorical poetics -- Progressing toward surprise : Edith Wharton's "Roman fever" -- Delayed disclosure and the problem of other minds : Ian McEwan's Atonement -- Rhetorical aesthetics within rhetorical poetics -- Interlacings of narrative and lyric : Ernest Hemingway's "A clean, well-lighted place" and Sandra Cisneros's "Woman Hollering Creek" -- Narrative in the service of portraiture : Alice Munro's "Prue" and Ann Beattie's "Janus" -- Dramatic dialogue as lyric narrative : Robert Frost's "Home burial" -- Experiencing fiction and its corpus : extensions to nonfiction narrative and synthetic fiction.…”
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Any Friend of the Movement : Networking for Birth Control, 1920-1940 / by Meyer, Jimmy Elaine Wilkinson

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