Table of Contents:
  • Yarhound, horrion, and the horse-headed tartar: editing Jane Sharp's The midwives book (1671) / Elaine Hobby
  • Cowley among the women: or, poetry in the contact zone / Kathryn R. King
  • "Lesbian" literary history in the eighteenth century / Sally O'Driscoll
  • Beyond feminist literary history? re-historicizing the mid-eighteenth-century woman writer / Betty A. Schellenberg
  • Terminus a quo, terminus ad quem: chronological boundaries in a literary history / Susan Staves
  • "A considerable rank in the world of Belles lettres": women, fiction, and literary history in the last quarter of the eighteenth century / Antonia Forster
  • The search for a lost Atlantis: feminist paradigms, narratives of nation, and genealogies of Victorian women's poetry and anti-slavery writing / Marjorie Stone
  • Finding Phebe: a literary history of women's science writing / Ann B. Shteir
  • Recuperating from modernism: Pauline Johnson's challenge to literary history / Carole Gerson
  • Literary history as exorcism: May Sinclair meets the Brontés / Suzanne Raitt
  • Women's literary history in a minor key / Jo-Ann Wallace
  • Beyond feminist recuperative study / Bonnie Kime Scott.