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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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The New Woman and the Empire / by Jusová, Iveta, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Sarah Grand: the new woman as an imperialist feminist -- George Egerton: Nietzschean feminism -- Elizabeth Robins: women's self-determination vs. state control -- Amy Levy: the Anglo-Jewish new woman.…”
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The Woman Painter in Victorian Literature / by Losano, Antonia Jacqueline

Table of Contents: “…Prevailing winds and cross-currents : public discourse and the history of Victorian women painters -- Desire and feminist aesthetics in Anne Brontë's The tenant of Wildfell Hall -- Ekphrasis and the art of courtship in Jane Eyre -- Making a living : Howitt, Eliot, Oliphant -- The afterlife of Angelica Kauffman -- Disfigurement and beauty in Dinah Craik and Charlotte Yonge -- Painting the new woman : Mary Ward and the woman artist.…”
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Educating the Proper Woman Reader : Victorian Family Literary Magazines and the Cultural Health of the Nation / by Phegley, Jennifer

Table of Contents: “…The scene of women's reading : mid-nineteenth century culture, professional critics, and family literary magazines -- Piracy and the patriotic woman reader : making British literature American in Harper's new monthly magazine, 1850-1855 -- The education and professionalization of the woman reader : consolidating middleclass power in the Cornhill magazine, 1860-1864 -- (Im)proper reading for women : Belgravia magazine and the defense of the sensation novel, 1866-1871 -- Victoria's secret : the woman's movement from reader to writer/critic, 1863-1868.…”
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Victorian Art Criticism and the Woman Writer / by Kanwit, John Paul M., 1972-

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Imoinda's Shade : Marriage and the African Woman in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, 1759-1808 / by Dominique, Lyndon Janson, 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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Feminist Realism at the Fin de Siecle : The Influence of the Late-Victorian Woman's Press on the Development of the Novel / by Youngkin, Molly, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…The woman's press at the fin de siecle -- "They are learning to think ... for themselves" : consciousness raised -- "What the girl says" : spoken word as political tool -- Women at work, at war, and on the go : feminist action -- "The realistic method in its best expression" : successful representations of woman's agency and literary reputations -- Engaging and shaping modernism.…”
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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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New World Courtships : Transatlantic Alternatives to Companionate Marriage / by Adams-Campbell, Melissa M.

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Mujeres, diosas y musas : tejedoras de la memoria / by Dalton, Margarita

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Echoes of Desire : English Petrarchism and Its Counterdiscourses / by Dubrow, Heather, 1945-

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Plots of Opportunity : Representing Conspiracy in Victorian England / by Pionke, Albert D., 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Italian union : red republicanism, The woman in white and Lothair.…”
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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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The White Indians of Mexican Cinema : Racial Masquerade throughout the Golden Age / by García Blizzard, Mónica

Table of Contents: “…Idealized pre-Colombian womanhood -- Taming the Tehuana -- Revolutionary politics, colonized aesthetics -- Reframing Mestizaje: white, Myans, Indigenous spirituality, and Cenote suicides -- María Isabel: a white Indita for modern Mexico -- Indios, desire, and the white Mexican woman.…”
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Perspectives : Modes of Viewing and Knowing in Nineteenth-Century England / by Shires, Linda M., 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Rossetti's double work of art and the viewer/reader -- The photographic perspectives of Henry Peach Robinson and Lady Clementina Hawarden -- Points of view in "Pippa passes," The woman in white, and Silas Marner -- Coda.…”
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Preaching and the Rise of the American Novel / by Coleman, Dawn (Dawn Davina), 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Creating the preacher's authority -- The slow rise of novel in America -- The radical Protestant preaching of George Lippard -- Secularizing the sermon in The scarlet letter -- Playing preacher in Moby-Dick -- The unsentimental woman preacher of Uncle Tom's cabin -- The borrowed sermons of Clotel; or, the President's daughter.…”
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Fictions of Authority : Women Writers and Narrative Voice / by Lanser, Susan Sniader, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Toward a feminist poetics of narrative voice -- The rise of the novel, the fall of the voice: Juliette Catesby's silencing -- In a class by herself: self-silencing in Riccoboni's Abeille -- Sense and reticence: Jane Austen's "Indirections" -- Woman of Maxims: Geoge Eliot and the realist imperative -- Fictions of absence: feminism, modernism, Virginia Woolf -- Unspeakable voice: Toni Morrison's postmodern authority -- Dying for publicity: Mistriss Henley's self-silencing -- Romantic voice: the hero's text -- Jane Eyre's legacy: the powers and dangers of singularity -- African-American personal voice: "her hungriest lack" -- Solidarity and silence: Millenium Hall and The wrongs of woman -- Single resistances: the communal "I" in Gaskell, Jewett, and Audoux -- (Dif)fusions: modern fiction and communal form -- Full circle: Les Guerilleres.…”
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Seeing Red : Anger, Sentimentality, and American Indians / by Carpenter, Cari M., 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Alice Callahan's Wynema -- "A woman to let alone" : E. Pauline Johnson and the performance of anger -- Lost (and gained) in translation : language, anger, and agency in Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins's Life among the Piutes -- Conclusion : an anger of their own.…”
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Women Poets and the American Sublime / by Diehl, Joanne Feit, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…From Emerson to Whitman : engendering the sublime -- Another way to see : Dickenson and the counter-sublime -- Dickinson, Moore, and the poetics of deflection -- Marianne Moore : toward an engendered sublime -- The "piercing, melting word" : Moore's "Octopus" -- Bishop's sexual poetics -- Plath's bodily ego : restaging the sublime -- "Of woman born" : Adrienne Rich and the feminist sublime.…”
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