Carol J. Singley is Assistant Professor of Literature and American Studies at The American University. Susan Elizabeth Sweeney is Associate Professor of English at the College of the Holy Cross.

• PrefaceAcknowledgments IntroductionCarol J. Singley and Susan Elizabeth Sweeney EXPERIENCING ANXIOUS POWER Female Language, Body, and SelfCarol J. Singley EXPRESSING ANXIOUS POWER Formal Strategies in a Female Narrative Tradition: The Case of Swann: A MysterySusan Elizabeth Sweeney PART I: ANXIETIES OF AUTHORSHIP Christine Antygrafe: Authorial Ambivalence in the Works of Christine de PizanChristine Moneera Laennec Our Bodies / Our Texts?: Renaissance Women and the Trials of AuthorshipWendy Wall A Politics of Disguise: Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy's "Belle-Etoile" and the Narrative Structure of AmbivalencePatricia Hannon Galesia, Jane Barker, and a Coming to AuthorshipKathryn R. King PART II: "MY BOOK MY PEN AND MY—LOVER": READING, WRITING, AND ROMANCE The World as Battleground in Jane Austen's PersuasionJulia Giordano "This Altogether Precious tho Wholy Worthless Book": The Diary of Mary Guion, 1800-1852Martha Tomhave Blauvelt Power and Resistance in Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave GirlDebra Humphreys Mirroring the Mother-Text: Histories of Seduction in the American Domestic NovelElizabeth L. Barnes Charlotte Bronte and Desire (to Write): Pleasure and ProhibitionPatricia E. Johnson Sarah Grand's The Beth Book: The New Woman and the Ideology of the Romance EndingTerri Doughty Forbidden Reading and Ghostly Writing in Edith Wharton's "Pomegranate Seed"Carol J. Singley and Susan Elizabeth Sweeney PART III: DEVELOPING NARRATIVES OF DIFFERENCES Willa Cather and the Fiction of Female DevelopmentJudith Fetterley "How Do We [Not] Become These People Who Victimize Us?": Anxious Authorship in the Early Fiction of Joyce Carol OatesBrenda O. Daly Receiving the Other: The Feminine Economy of Clarice Lispector's The Hour of the StarDeborah J. Archer "What There Was before Language": Preliteracy in Toni Morrison's Song of SolomonDeborah L. Clarke Literary Tricksterism: Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among GhostsBonnie TuSmith Different Voices: The Re-Bildung of the Barrio in Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango StreetLeslie S. Gutierrez-Jones PART IV: READING AND WRITING EMPOWERMENT Ambiguous Benefits: Reading and Writing in Feminist MetafictionGayle Greene Letters from Nowhere: Fanny Howe's Forty Whacks and Feminine IdentityJohnny Payne Scripted, Conscripted, and Circumscribed: Body Language in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's TaleSheila C. Conboy Discourse as Power: Renouncing DenialDiane P. Freedman Notes on Contributors Index

Carol J. Singley is Assistant Professor of Literature and American Studies at The American University. Susan Elizabeth Sweeney is Associate Professor of English at the College of the Holy Cross.

• PrefaceAcknowledgments IntroductionCarol J. Singley and Susan Elizabeth Sweeney EXPERIENCING ANXIOUS POWER Female Language, Body, and SelfCarol J. Singley EXPRESSING ANXIOUS POWER Formal Strategies in a Female Narrative Tradition: The Case of Swann: A MysterySusan Elizabeth Sweeney PART I: ANXIETIES OF AUTHORSHIP Christine Antygrafe: Authorial Ambivalence in the Works of Christine de PizanChristine Moneera Laennec Our Bodies / Our Texts?: Renaissance Women and the Trials of AuthorshipWendy Wall A Politics of Disguise: Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy's "Belle-Etoile" and the Narrative Structure of AmbivalencePatricia Hannon Galesia, Jane Barker, and a Coming to AuthorshipKathryn R. King PART II: "MY BOOK MY PEN AND MY—LOVER": READING, WRITING, AND ROMANCE The World as Battleground in Jane Austen's PersuasionJulia Giordano "This Altogether Precious tho Wholy Worthless Book": The Diary of Mary Guion, 1800-1852Martha Tomhave Blauvelt Power and Resistance in Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave GirlDebra Humphreys Mirroring the Mother-Text: Histories of Seduction in the American Domestic NovelElizabeth L. Barnes Charlotte Bronte and Desire (to Write): Pleasure and ProhibitionPatricia E. Johnson Sarah Grand's The Beth Book: The New Woman and the Ideology of the Romance EndingTerri Doughty Forbidden Reading and Ghostly Writing in Edith Wharton's "Pomegranate Seed"Carol J. Singley and Susan Elizabeth Sweeney PART III: DEVELOPING NARRATIVES OF DIFFERENCES Willa Cather and the Fiction of Female DevelopmentJudith Fetterley "How Do We [Not] Become These People Who Victimize Us?": Anxious Authorship in the Early Fiction of Joyce Carol OatesBrenda O. Daly Receiving the Other: The Feminine Economy of Clarice Lispector's The Hour of the StarDeborah J. Archer "What There Was before Language": Preliteracy in Toni Morrison's Song of SolomonDeborah L. Clarke Literary Tricksterism: Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among GhostsBonnie TuSmith Different Voices: The Re-Bildung of the Barrio in Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango StreetLeslie S. Gutierrez-Jones PART IV: READING AND WRITING EMPOWERMENT Ambiguous Benefits: Reading and Writing in Feminist MetafictionGayle Greene Letters from Nowhere: Fanny Howe's Forty Whacks and Feminine IdentityJohnny Payne Scripted, Conscripted, and Circumscribed: Body Language in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's TaleSheila C. Conboy Discourse as Power: Renouncing DenialDiane P. Freedman Notes on Contributors Index

Carol J. Singley is Assistant Professor of Literature and American Studies at The American University. Susan Elizabeth Sweeney is Associate Professor of English at the College of the Holy Cross.

• PrefaceAcknowledgments IntroductionCarol J. Singley and Susan Elizabeth Sweeney EXPERIENCING ANXIOUS POWER Female Language, Body, and SelfCarol J. Singley EXPRESSING ANXIOUS POWER Formal Strategies in a Female Narrative Tradition: The Case of Swann: A MysterySusan Elizabeth Sweeney PART I: ANXIETIES OF AUTHORSHIP Christine Antygrafe: Authorial Ambivalence in the Works of Christine de PizanChristine Moneera Laennec Our Bodies / Our Texts?: Renaissance Women and the Trials of AuthorshipWendy Wall A Politics of Disguise: Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy's "Belle-Etoile" and the Narrative Structure of AmbivalencePatricia Hannon Galesia, Jane Barker, and a Coming to AuthorshipKathryn R. King PART II: "MY BOOK MY PEN AND MY—LOVER": READING, WRITING, AND ROMANCE The World as Battleground in Jane Austen's PersuasionJulia Giordano "This Altogether Precious tho Wholy Worthless Book": The Diary of Mary Guion, 1800-1852Martha Tomhave Blauvelt Power and Resistance in Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave GirlDebra Humphreys Mirroring the Mother-Text: Histories of Seduction in the American Domestic NovelElizabeth L. Barnes Charlotte Bronte and Desire (to Write): Pleasure and ProhibitionPatricia E. Johnson Sarah Grand's The Beth Book: The New Woman and the Ideology of the Romance EndingTerri Doughty Forbidden Reading and Ghostly Writing in Edith Wharton's "Pomegranate Seed"Carol J. Singley and Susan Elizabeth Sweeney PART III: DEVELOPING NARRATIVES OF DIFFERENCES Willa Cather and the Fiction of Female DevelopmentJudith Fetterley "How Do We [Not] Become These People Who Victimize Us?": Anxious Authorship in the Early Fiction of Joyce Carol OatesBrenda O. Daly Receiving the Other: The Feminine Economy of Clarice Lispector's The Hour of the StarDeborah J. Archer "What There Was before Language": Preliteracy in Toni Morrison's Song of SolomonDeborah L. Clarke Literary Tricksterism: Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among GhostsBonnie TuSmith Different Voices: The Re-Bildung of the Barrio in Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango StreetLeslie S. Gutierrez-Jones PART IV: READING AND WRITING EMPOWERMENT Ambiguous Benefits: Reading and Writing in Feminist MetafictionGayle Greene Letters from Nowhere: Fanny Howe's Forty Whacks and Feminine IdentityJohnny Payne Scripted, Conscripted, and Circumscribed: Body Language in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's TaleSheila C. Conboy Discourse as Power: Renouncing DenialDiane P. Freedman Notes on Contributors Index