The madwoman in the attic: the woman writer and the nineteenth-century literary imagination

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 aesthetic of renunciation

A woman, white: Emily Dickinson's yarn of pearl.

pt. 1. Toward a feminist poetics: The queen's looking glass: female creativity, male images of women, and the metaphor of literary paternity --

Infection in the sentence: the woman writer and the anxiety of authorship --

The parables of the cave --

pt. 2. Inside the house of fiction: Jane Austen's tenants of possibility: Shut up in prose: gender and genre in Austen's Juvenilia --

Jane Austen's cover story (and its secret agents) --

pt. 3. How are we fal'n?: Milton's daughters: Milton's bogey: patriarchal poetry and women readers --

Horror's twin: Mary Shelley's monstrous eve --

Looking oppositely: Emily Brontë's bible of hell --

pt. 4. The spectral selves of Charlotte Brontë: 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 --

pt. 5. Captivity and consciousness in George Eliot's fiction: Made keen by loss: George Eliot's veiled vision --

George Eliot as the angel of destruction --

pt. 6. Strength in agony: nineteenth-century poetry by women: The aesthetics of renunciation --

A woman -White: Emily Dickinson's yearn of Pearl.

The Queen's looking glass: female creativity, male images of women, and the metaphor of literary paternity

Infection in the sentence: the woman 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.