Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments to the Expanded Edition vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. INTRODUCTION. Twenty Years On: A Literature of Their Own Revisited xi
6. I The Female Tradition 1
7. II The Feminine Novelists and the Will to Write 37
8. III The Double Critical Standard and the Feminine Novel 73
9. IV Feminine Heroines: Charlotte Bronte and George Eliot 100
10. V Feminine Heroes: The Woman's Man 133
11. VI Subverting the Feminine Novel: Sensationalism and Feminine Protest 153
12. VII The Feminist Novelists 182
13. VIII Women Writers and the Suffrage Movement 216
14. IX The Female Aesthetic 240
15. X Virginia Woolf and the Flight into Androgyny 263
16. XI Beyond the Female Aesthetic: Contemporary Women Novelists 298
17. XII Laughing Medusa 320
18. Index 337