Literature, Theory, and the Question of Genders
Thais E. Morgan
Part I: From Modern to Postmodern Literatures
Section One: Men's Femininities
The Mourner in the Flesh: George Herbert's Commemoration of Magdalen Herbert in Memoriae Matris Sacrum
Deborah Rubin
Lyrical Ballads and the Language of (Men)Feeling: Writing Women's Voices
Susan J. Wolfson
Border Disturbances: D. H. Lawrence's Fiction and the Feminism of Wuthering Heights
Carol Siegel
"To Write What Cannot Be Written": The Woman Writer and Male Authority in John Hawkes's Virginie: Her Two Lives
Peter F. Murphy
Section Two: The Gendering Gaze
Diderot and the Nun: Portrait of the Artist as Transvestite
Beatrice Durand
"This Kind": Pornographic Discourse, Lesbian Bodies, and Paul Verlaine's Les Amies
Barbara Milech
The Woman in the Mirror: Randall Jarrell and John Berryman
Christopher Benfey
William Faulkner as Lesbian Author
Frann Michel
Part II: Postmodern Theories: Beyond Gender?
Objects of Postmodern "Masters": Subject-in-Simulation/Woman-in-Effect
Martina Sciolino
The Politics of Aversion in Theory
Charles Bernheimer
Five Propositions on the future of Men in Feminism
Jonathan Culler
Two Conversations on Literature, Theory, and the Question of Genders
Robert Con Davis and Thais E. Morgan
For Further Reading
List of Contributors
Index