Foreign Woman in British Literature

MARILYN DEMAREST BUTTON is Associate Professor of English at Lincoln University. She has contributed to numerous scholarly journals and reference works.TONI REED is a grant development consultant and freelance writer. Her previous books include Demon-Lovers and Their Victims in British Fiction (1988).

• Preface Introduction by Marilyn Demarest Button Dismantling Traditionalist Gender Roles: An Exotic Counter World in Byron's DON JUAN by Frank P. Riga Transforming the Stereotype: Exotic Women in Shelley's Alastor and The Witch of Atlas by John Greenfield "Asia Loves Prometheus": Asian Women and Shelley's Macropolitics by Eleanor Harrington-Austin A Genealogy of Ruths: From Alien Harvester to Fallen Woman in Nineteenth-Century England by Eve W. Stoddard Charlotte BronTE's VILLETTE: Imagining a Self between a Husband and a Wall by Andrea O'Reilley Herrera Challenging Traditionalist Gender Roles: The Exotic Woman as Critical Observer in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's AURORA LEIGH by Maureen Thum "In Short, She Is an Angel and I Am--": Odd Women and Same-Sex Desire in Wilkie Collins' WOMAN IN WHITE by Laurel Erickson The "Other" Woman in George Eliot's Fiction by Oliver Lovesey Phantoms for a Human Face: Race and the Construction of the African Woman's Identity in Joseph Conrad's HEART OF DARKNESS by Ode S. Ogede The Foreign Woman Is a Man: Gender Reversal in D. H. Lawrence's Fiction by Karl Henzy Gypsy Women in English Life and Literature by Celia Esplugas A Losing Tradition: The Exotic Female of Anita Brookner's Early Fiction by Marilyn Demarest Button "Our Many Larval Selves": Durrell's Livia and the Cross-Cultural Signal by Mary Mathews Index