Description: This milestone of feminist study by fourteen women writers breaks new ground in American literary study. The essays are valuable as individual critical studies of specific writers and their works, including Emily Dickinson, Edith Wharton, and Gertrude Stein, and advocate for a revised literary canon that readdresses their artistic contributions.
Brief description: JACQUELINE VAUGHT BROGAN is a professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. Her books include Stevens and Simile and Part of the Climate, as well as a collection of her own poetry, Damage.
Review Quotes:
Keenly relevant essays that speak to one of the most enduring--and provocative--critical issues in the study of literature.
--Linda Wagner-Martin "author of Flavored Strangers: Gertrude Stein and Her Family"