Provides a collection of essays that concern feminist approaches to literary criticism.

Salem Press.

About this Volume -- The Feminism of Renaissance Love Poetry -- Critical Contexts -- Imag(in)ing the Female Reader: The Lady's Magazine in the New Republic -- Margaret Fuller's Woman in the Nineteenth Century and American Literary History -- Linda Loman and Cognitive Psychology in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman -- Rebel Daughters: Margaret Walker and Muriel Rukeyser -- Critical Readings -- The Body of Sextus in Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece -- Killing Desdemona: Possible Feminist Responses to the Death Scene in Shakespeare's Othello -- Body and Text in Early Epistolary Fiction, Culminating in Richardson's Pamela -- "Make Savings, Not Children": Malthus and Population Control in Emma and Mansfield Park -- Christina Rossetti as a "Feminist" Poet -- Feminism in Kate Chopin's "Flash Fiction" -- Genevieve Taggard's Socialist Feminist Interventions in Lyric Making -- Women and "Feminism" in Zora Neale Hurston's "The Gilded Six-Bits" -- A War Story of One's Own: Katherine Anne Porter's Re-Envisioning of Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms -- Telling It Like It Was: Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook as a Protofeminist Text -- Failed Stories of Rewriting and Revision in Sandra Cisneros's Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories -- The Thirtysomething Wives' Tale: Zadie Smith's NW as a Post-Feminist Text -- Resources -- Feminist Pluralism: A Variety of Possible Feminist Approaches to Literature and Film -- Chronology -- Additional Works -- Bibliography -- About the Editor -- Contributors -- Glossary -- Index.