Engendering the word : feminist essays in psychosexual poetics / Temma F. Berg, editor ; Anna Shannon Elfenbein, Jeanne Larsen, Elisa Kay Sparks, co-editors ; with a foreword by Sandra M. Gilbert
Foreword / Sandra M. Gilbert -- Introduction / Temma F. Berg and Jeanne Larsen -- Suppressing the language of wo(man) : the dream as a common language / Temma F. Berg -- Tradition and women's writing : toward a poetics of difference / Adriana Méndez Rodenas -- Old father Nile : T.S. Eliot and Harold Bloom on the creative process as spontaneous generation / Elisa Kay Sparks -- The gaze of the other woman : beholding and begetting in Dickinson, Moore, and Rich / Leigh Gilmore -- "This woman can cross any line" : power and authority in contemporary women's fiction / Marilee Lindemann -- The "incredible indigo sea" within Anglo-American fiction / Laura Niesen De Abruña -- Feminine voices in exile / María Rosa Olivera-Williams
Testing the razor : T.S. Eliot's Poems 1920 / Stephen H. Clark -- "How lovely are the wiles of words!" or, "subjects hinder talk" : the letters of Emily Dickinson / S. Jaret McKinstry -- Unsexing language : pronomial protest in Emily Dickinson's "Lay this laurel" / Anna Shannon Elfenbein -- Linguistic and sexual engendering in Marianne Moore's poetry / Carolyn A. Durham -- Text and matrix : Dickinson, H.D., and woman's voice / Jeanne Larsen