Women's Literary Creativity and the Female Body

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Introduction: Women, Creativity, and the Female Body......Page 10
Section I: Revisiting/Revising Genre and Gender......Page 28
1 Anne Bradstreet’s Application of Modern Feminist Theory......Page 30
2 Creative Tension: The Symbolic and the Semiotic in Emily Dickinson’s “I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—”......Page 50
3 Father, Don’t You See That I Am Dreaming?: The Female Gothic and the Creative Process......Page 70
4 Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Rhetorical Location: Modern Rhetors Transgressing Culture and Transforming Genre......Page 92
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......Page 108
Section II: From the Medusa to the Mother......Page 130
6 Mary Augusta Ward’s Literary Portraits of the Artist as Medusa......Page 132
7 Re-visioning the “Vision from a Fairer World Than His”: Women, Creativity, and Work in East Lynne and Mrs. Doubtfire......Page 148
8 Matrix and Voice in A.S. Byatt’s Possession......Page 172
9 Creation and Procreation in Margaret Atwood’s “Giving Birth”: A Narrative of Doubles......Page 190
10 Female Voices, Male Listeners: Identifying Gender in the Poetry of Anne Sexton and Wanda Coleman......Page 202
Contributors......Page 220
B......Page 224
E......Page 225
H......Page 226
M......Page 227
S......Page 228
Y......Page 229