About this volume / Robert C. Evans - In search of identity : woman, the novel, and voice in works by Carter, Eliot, Sayers, and Woolf / Reema Faris - The mad Ophelia / Frederick Kiefer - Introduction to feminist criticism : an overview / Joyce Ahn - Female speakers in poems by Thomas Campion / Robert C. Evans - Feminist sisters : Margaret Fuller and Ida B. Wells and their invitational rhetoric / Nanette Rasband Hilton - "Old fashioned - naughty - everything -" : uncreating male and female in the poetry of Emily Dickinson / Nicolas Tredell -- "Most men are human" : race and Grant Allen's The type-writer girl / Kellie Holzer - Names by the numbers : a quantitative close reading of Mrs. Manson Mingott and Madame Olenska's shifting names and identities in Edith Wharton's The age of innocence / Sarah Fredericks - Revisiting Amy Lowell's World War I poetry / Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick - Mary Carolyn Davies : an unknown poet of the First World War / Robert C. Evans - The woman alone : singleness and survival in Jean Rhys's Quartet / Nicolas Tredell - Double femininity : Double indemnity and the femme fatale archetype / Zachariah Pippin - The 1998 film of Toni Morrison's Beloved : a survey of critical reactions / Alexzina Taylor Wilks - The film version of Amy Tan's The joy luck club : a survey of critical reactions / Jordan Bailey - Margaret Atwood's Penelopiad : scholarship, theatrical reviews, and commentary / Robert C. Evans - Additional works on feminism - Bibliography - About the editor - Contributors - Index