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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents ix
- Introduction to the Veritas Paperback Edition xi
- Preface to the First Edition xvii
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Part I. Toward a Feminist Poetics
- 1. The Queen’s Looking Glass: Female Creativity, Male Images of Women, and the Metaphor of Literary Paternity 3
- 2. Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety of Authorship 45
- 3. The Parables of the Cave 93
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Part II. Inside the House of Fiction: Jane Austen’s Tenants of Possibility
- 4. Shut Up in Prose: Gender and Genre in Austen’s Juvenilia 107
- 5. Jane Austen’s Cover Story (and Its Secret Agents) 146
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Part III. How Are We Fal’n?: Milton’s Daughters
- 6. Milton’s Bogey: Patriarchal Poetry and Women Readers 187
- 7. Horror’s Twin: Mary Shelley’s Monstrous Eve 213
- 8. Looking Oppositely: Emily Brontë’s Bible of Hell 248
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Part IV. The Spectral Selves of Charlotte Brontë
- 9. A Secret, Inward Wound: The Professor’s Pupil 311
- 10. A Dialogue of Self and Soul: Plain Jane’s Progress 336
- 11. The Genesis of Hunger, According to Shirley 372
- 12. The Buried Life of Lucy Snowe 399
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Part V. Captivity and Consciousness in George Eliot’s Fiction
- 13. Made Keen by Loss: George Eliot’s Veiled Vision 443
- 14. George Eliot as the Angel of Destruction 478
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Part VI. Strength in Agony: Nineteenth-Century Poetry by Women
- 15. The Aesthetics of Renunciation 539
- 16. A Woman—White: Emily Dickinson’s Yarn of Pearl 581
- Notes 651
- Index 699
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents ix
- Introduction to the Veritas Paperback Edition xi
- Preface to the First Edition xvii
-
Part I. Toward a Feminist Poetics
- 1. The Queen’s Looking Glass: Female Creativity, Male Images of Women, and the Metaphor of Literary Paternity 3
- 2. Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety of Authorship 45
- 3. The Parables of the Cave 93
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Part II. Inside the House of Fiction: Jane Austen’s Tenants of Possibility
- 4. Shut Up in Prose: Gender and Genre in Austen’s Juvenilia 107
- 5. Jane Austen’s Cover Story (and Its Secret Agents) 146
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Part III. How Are We Fal’n?: Milton’s Daughters
- 6. Milton’s Bogey: Patriarchal Poetry and Women Readers 187
- 7. Horror’s Twin: Mary Shelley’s Monstrous Eve 213
- 8. Looking Oppositely: Emily Brontë’s Bible of Hell 248
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Part IV. The Spectral Selves of Charlotte Brontë
- 9. A Secret, Inward Wound: The Professor’s Pupil 311
- 10. A Dialogue of Self and Soul: Plain Jane’s Progress 336
- 11. The Genesis of Hunger, According to Shirley 372
- 12. The Buried Life of Lucy Snowe 399
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Part V. Captivity and Consciousness in George Eliot’s Fiction
- 13. Made Keen by Loss: George Eliot’s Veiled Vision 443
- 14. George Eliot as the Angel of Destruction 478
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Part VI. Strength in Agony: Nineteenth-Century Poetry by Women
- 15. The Aesthetics of Renunciation 539
- 16. A Woman—White: Emily Dickinson’s Yarn of Pearl 581
- Notes 651
- Index 699