Women writers and the city : essays in feminist literary criticism

The city has a special significance in the works of women writers because-as women- they have a unique relationship to the urban environment, whether it is considered as an actual place, as a symbol of culture, or as the nexus of concepts and values determining woman's place in history and society. For women, as for men, the city may be either hostile or nurturant to their selves, desires, and goals. But whichever quality it demonstrates, it does so in a different way where women are concerned. The City As Catalyst For Flora Tristan's Vision Of Social Change / Sandra Dijkstra -- Marguerite Duras : Women's Language In Men's Cities / Susan Rava -- Return To Mytilène : Renée Vivien And The City Of Women / Elyse Blankley -- George Eliot And The City : The Imprisonment Of Culture / Nancy L. Paxton -- Every Woman Is An Island : Vita Sackville-west, The Image Of The City, And The Pastoral Idyll / Louise A. Desalvo -- Tradition And Revision : The Classic City Novel And Virginia Woolf's Night And Day / Susan Merrill Squier -- A Wilderness Of One's Own : Feminist Fantasy Novels Of The Twenties : Rebecca West And Sylvia Townsend Warner / Jane Marcus -- A Gigantic Mother : Katherine Mansfield's London / Sydney Janet Kaplan -- Reading The City As Palimpsest : The Experiential Perception Of The City In Dois Lessing's The Four-gated City / Christine W. Sizemore -- Quest For The Peaceable Kingdom : Urban/rural Codes In Roy, Laurence, And Atwood / Sherrill E. Grace -- Willa Cather's Lost Chicago Sisters / Sidney H. Bremer -- A Laying On Of Hands : Transcending The City In Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When The Rainbow Is Enuf / Carolyn Mitchell -- Another View Of The City Upon A Hill : The Prophetic Vision Of Adrienne Rich / Wendy Martin -- Sister To Faust : The City's Hungry Woman As Heroine / Blanche H. Gelfant -- Literature And The City : A Checklist Of Relevant Secondary Works / Susan Merrill Squier. Susan Merrill Squier, Editor. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 288-294. Contents Introduction The City as Catalyst for Flora Tristan's Vision of Social Change Return to Mytilene: Renee Vivien and the City of Women George Eliot and the City: The Imprisonment of Culture Every Woman Is an Island: Vita Sackville-West, the Image ofthe City, and the Pastoral Idyll Tradition and Revision: The Classic City Novel and Virginia Woolf's Night and Day A Wilderness of One's Own: Feminist Fantasy Novels of the Twenties: Rebecca West and Sylvia Townsend Warner "A Gigantic Mother": Katherine Mansfield's London Reading the City as Palimpsest: The Experiential Perception of the City in Doris Lessing's The Four-Gated City Quest for the Peaceable Kingdom: Urban/Rural Codes in Roy, Laurence, and Atwood Willa Cather's Lost Chicago Sisters "A Laying on of Hands": Transcending the City in Ntozake Shange's for colored girls who have consideredsuicide I when the rainbow is enuf Another View of the "City Upon a Hill": The Prophetic Vision of Adrienne Rich Sister to Faust: The City's "Hungry" Woman as Heroine As Literature and the City: A Checklist of Relevant Secondary Works Contributors Index Could almost list Like New except for light little fingernail scuff on front cover and the tiniest, tiniest of dog ears to two interior pages. Ships from Good Ole Knoxville. GREAT BUY!! FAST SHIPPING!! (A3B)