Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor is an associate professor of Women's Studies and English at Penn State University. She is author/editor of four books, the most recent of which are this volume, and The Scandal of Susan Sontag (co-edited with Barbara Ching, 2009). She has published numerous articles on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature.

• Preface; Introduction: portals of possibility: speculative standpoint and feminist intervention; 1. Learning the way of the world, and beyond: utopian imperatives and the female bildungsroman; 2. 'With no guarantees, of course': the art of the possible; 3. Archives of the heart: inventing history at the edge(s) of time; 4. Always coming home, in America: enacting the romance of community; 5. Looking east for news from nowhere: feminist mobility in Muslim women's speculative writing; Conclusion: being at home somewhere; References; Index.

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Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor is an associate professor of Women's Studies and English at Penn State University. She is author/editor of four books, the most recent of which are this volume, and The Scandal of Susan Sontag (co-edited with Barbara Ching, 2009). She has published numerous articles on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature.

• Preface; Introduction: portals of possibility: speculative standpoint and feminist intervention; 1. Learning the way of the world, and beyond: utopian imperatives and the female bildungsroman; 2. 'With no guarantees, of course': the art of the possible; 3. Archives of the heart: inventing history at the edge(s) of time; 4. Always coming home, in America: enacting the romance of community; 5. Looking east for news from nowhere: feminist mobility in Muslim women's speculative writing; Conclusion: being at home somewhere; References; Index.

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Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor is an associate professor of Women's Studies and English at Penn State University. She is author/editor of four books, the most recent of which are this volume, and The Scandal of Susan Sontag (co-edited with Barbara Ching, 2009). She has published numerous articles on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature.

• Preface; Introduction: portals of possibility: speculative standpoint and feminist intervention; 1. Learning the way of the world, and beyond: utopian imperatives and the female bildungsroman; 2. 'With no guarantees, of course': the art of the possible; 3. Archives of the heart: inventing history at the edge(s) of time; 4. Always coming home, in America: enacting the romance of community; 5. Looking east for news from nowhere: feminist mobility in Muslim women's speculative writing; Conclusion: being at home somewhere; References; Index.

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