Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Acknowledgments IX
4. Introduction: Writing Feminist Criticism 1
5. I. Reading Women’s Writing
6. 1. Emphasis Added: Plots and Plausibilities in Women’s Fiction 25
7. 2. Writing Fictions: Women’s Autobiography in France 47
8. II. The Subjects of Feminist Criticism
9. 3. The Text’s Heroine: A Feminist Critic and Her Fictions 67
10. 4. Arachnologies: The Woman, the Text, and the Critic 77
11. 5. Changing the Subject: Authorship, Writing, and the Reader 102
12. III. Feminist Signatures: Coming to Writing in France, 1747–1910
13. 6. The Knot, the Letter, and the Book: Graffigny’s Peruvian Letters 125
14. 7. Performances of the Gaze: Stael’s Corinne, or Italy 162
15. 8. Writing from the Pavilion: George Sand and the Novel of Female Pastoral 204
16. 9. Woman of Letters: The Return to Writing in Colette’s The Vagabond 229
17. Works Cited 265
18. Index 277