Women’s Literary Creativity and the Female Body

Section I. Revisiting/Revising Genre and Gender

1. Anne Bradstreet’s Application of Modern Feminist Theory
Katarzyna Malecka

2. Creative Tension: The Symbolic and the Semiotic in Emily Dickinson’s “I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—”
Beth Jensen

3. Father, Don’t You See That I Am Dreaming?: The Female Gothic and the Creative Process
Diane Long Hoeveler

4. Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Rhetorical Location: Modern Rhetors Transgressing Culture and Transforming Genre
Donna Decker Schuster

5. Elegance and Make-Up: Nature, Modernity, and the Female Body in the Spanish Beach Narratives of the 1920s; Wenceslao Fernández Flórez and Carmen de Burgos
Eugenia V. Afinoguénova

Section II. From the Medusa to the Mother

6. Mary Augusta Ward’s Literary Portraits of the Artist as Medusa
Linda M. Lewis

7. Re-Visioning the “Vision from a Fairer World than His”: Women, Creativity, and Work in East Lynne and Mrs. Doubtfire
Karen M. Odden

8. Matrix and Voice in A. S. Byatt’s Possession
Marguerite Helmers

9. Creation and Procreation in Margaret Atwood’s “Giving Birth”: A Narrative of Doubles
Pascale Sardin

10. Female Voices, Male Listeners: Identifying Gender in the Poetry of Anne Sexton and Wanda Coleman
Ian Williams

Keywords: Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Gender Studies, North American Literature