Speaking of gender / edited by Elaine Showalter.

Includes bibliographical references.

The rise of gender--Reading ourselves: toward a feminist theory of reading--Gender theory and the Yale School--Gender and Afro-Americanist literary theory and criticism--Creativity and the childbirth metaphor: gender difference in literary discourse--The masculine mode--Androgyny, mimesis, and the marriage of the boy heroine on the English renaissance stage--The politics of Emerson's man-making words--The female king: Tennyson's Arthurian apocalypse--Cage aux folles: sensation and gender in Wilkie Collin's The Woman in White--"Kiss me with those red lips": gender and inversion in Bram Stoker's Dracula--The best in the closet: James annd the writing of homosexual panic--Virile womanhood: Olive Schreiner's narratives of a master race--Soldier's heart: literary men, literary women, and the Great War--Writing war poetry like a woman.