JournalTOCs

Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature
Journal Prestige (SJR): 0.101

Number of Followers: 7

Full-text available via subscription

Subscription journal
ISSN (Print) 0732-7730 - ISSN (Online) 1936-1645
Published by Project MUSE

[305 journals]

From the Editor
- Free pre-print version: Loading...
  Rate this result: What is this?
  
  Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating.
  A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
  
  Abstract: In our last issue, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature had the honor of publishing on the special topic of “Contemporary Black British Women’s Writing,” guest edited by Elisabeth Bekers, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, and Helen Cousins. The issue focuses on literary innovations and experimental forms of writing by British women of African and African Caribbean descent since the 1990s. Through five articles and interviews with four contemporary authors, the guest editors craft an issue that “raises critical questions about the extent to which precedence has been given to the politics over the aesthetics of their writing.”1 The issue recognizes Black women’s writing as a driving force of contemporary literary innovation in ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-05-17T00:00:00-05:00
Susan Stanford Friedman
- Free pre-print version: Loading...
  Rate this result: What is this?
  
  Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating.
  A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
  
  Abstract: Susan Stanford Friedman, Hilldale Professor Emerita in the Humanities and Virginia Woolf Professor Emerita of English and Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, passed away on 26 February 2023. Friedman was a long-term supporter of Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, having joined the editorial board in 1990 and moving to the advisory board in 2008. In keeping with her commitment to the study of women’s literature, she published several articles in the journal over four decades. A preeminent scholar of modernist studies, Friedman was a leading academic in narrative theory, gender studies, feminist studies, cultural theory, migration/diaspora/transnational studies, world literatures, and ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-05-17T00:00:00-05:00
“A Modern Woman, born 1689”: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu in the Early
Feminist and Women’s Suffrage Movement
- Free pre-print version: Loading...
  Rate this result: What is this?
  
  Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating.
  A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
  
  Abstract: William Moy Thomas writes of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762) in his 1861 introduction to The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, “As a wife and mother, her letters show her homely, frugal, cheerful, and affectionate.”1 In doing so, he frames the eccentric Montagu—then most famous for her satiric paper wars with Augustan wits Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift—as appropriately motherly, modest, and domestic according to Victorian notions of womanhood. As scholars such as Magdalena Nerio and Margaret J. M. Ezell have shown, early to mid-nineteenth-century editions of Montagu’s letters similarly framed her as a demure, morally virtuous writer who aligned with Victorian ideals.2 According to Ezell, by ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-05-17T00:00:00-05:00
Lady Delacour’s Electioneering Rage
- Free pre-print version: Loading...
  Rate this result: What is this?
  
  Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating.
  A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
  
  Abstract: In a little-known letter to her cousin Sophy Ruxton in February 1796, Maria Edgeworth addresses one of the political hyperboles commonly ascribed to the “unsex’d females” of the late eighteenth century: electioneering rage.1 After her father failed to win a seat in the newly independent Irish Parliament, Edgeworth writes,Though I most earnestly wish that my father was in that situation which [Sir Thomas] Fetherstone now graces, and though my father had done me the honour to let me copy his Election letters for him, I am not in the least infected with electioneering rage.2“Electioneering rage,” a charge specifically aimed at women in the eighteenth century that exploded after Georgiana Cavendish, the Duchess of ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-05-17T00:00:00-05:00
Femininity, Science, and Religion on Tour in Almira Phelps’s
Caroline Westerley (1833)
- Free pre-print version: Loading...
  Rate this result: What is this?
  
  Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating.
  A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
  
  Abstract: In 1833, Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps (1793–1884) published her first adolescent girls’ novel Caroline Westerley: or, the Young Traveller from Ohio. Although less well-known today than her more famous older sister—author, educator, and women’s rights’ activist Emma Hart Willard (1787–1870)—Phelps was one of the most commercially successful educational science writers of the nineteenth century, selling over a million copies of her textbooks, guides, and novels. In 1859, Phelps’s scientific contributions resulted in her becoming the second woman elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science.1 While Phelps’s nonfictional writings and her work as a science popularizer and an educator have garnered ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-05-17T00:00:00-05:00
Refugee Domesticity in Martha Gellhorn’s World War II Fiction
- Free pre-print version: Loading...
  Rate this result: What is this?
  
  Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating.
  A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
  
  Abstract: A prolific war correspondent, novelist, and short story writer, Martha Gellhorn (1908–1998) wrote frankly about war’s effect on civilians and critically of the role governments play in the violence and population displacements of wartime. With the journalistic ramifications of Gellhorn’s commitment to the human-interest side of war well explored,1 this essay offers a feminist reading of the political importance of domestic spaces as sites of resistance and occupation in her 1940 novel A Stricken Field and her short story “Luigi’s House” (1941). Gellhorn’s mid-century modernist writing about refugee domesticity during World War II thematically addresses the state of democracy, the positioning of nationality, and the ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-05-17T00:00:00-05:00
Desire as an Idiom of Liberation: Black Feminist Praxis in Toni Cade
Bambara and Alice Walker
- Free pre-print version: Loading...
  Rate this result: What is this?
  
  Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating.
  A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
  
  Abstract: Zora Neale Hurston’s keen observation in Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) that the Black “woman is the mule uh de [of the] world,” which captures the condition of Black women as facing not only social but also intimate injustice in their lives, remains as true today as it was during Jim Crow times.1 Hurston fought against this perception of Black women in Their Eyes Were Watching God with her protagonist, Janie, who is arguably the first truly feminist character in modern African American literature and who embodies the liberatory qualities of desire. Hurston’s analysis that Black women are treated as the mules of the world has been supported by many Black women writers and scholars, including most recently ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-05-17T00:00:00-05:00
Secondary Agency: Toni Morrison, Toni Cade Bambara, and the Making of
Those Bones Are Not My Child
- Free pre-print version: Loading...
  Rate this result: What is this?
  
  Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating.
  A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
  
  Abstract: We are each other’s business.When Toni Cade Bambara died in 1995 after two years of living with colon cancer, the world lost an incisive writer, activist, and filmmaker. Published obituaries speak glowingly of her “eloquent voice,” highlighting the contributions of her novel The Salt Eaters (1980) and other works of short fiction to American letters.2 Some of these obituaries, including the one printed in the Los Angeles Times, also note her lesser known second novel, If Blessing Comes. A curious reader who has not heard of this novel might do a Google search of the title, leading to various encyclopedia entries, biographies, and other works mentioning If Blessing Comes, each noting a publication date of 1987.But ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-05-17T00:00:00-05:00
New England Women Writers, Secularity, and the Federalist Politics of
Church and State by Gretchen Murphy (review)
- Free pre-print version: Loading...
  Rate this result: What is this?
  
  Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating.
  A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
  
  Abstract: In New England Women Writers, Secularity, and the Federalist Politics of Church and State, Gretchen Murphy recovers an overlooked literary tradition embedded within Federalist New England writings. Even though Federalism as a vibrant political tradition gradually faded after Thomas Jefferson’s election, Murphy argues that rather than abandoning Federalism, some women writers were “adapting its philosophy and curating its legacy” (p. 4). While tackling key political issues of church and state, Judith Sargent Murray, Sally Sayward Wood, Lydia Huntley Sigourney, Catherine Sedgwick, and Harriet Beecher Stowe preserved Federalism’s legacy. Murphy’s book is a fresh approach and a welcome addition to scholarship exploring ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-05-17T00:00:00-05:00
Fair Copy: Relational Poetics and Antebellum American Women’s Poetry by
Jennifer Putzi (review)
- Free pre-print version: Loading...
  Rate this result: What is this?
  
  Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating.
  A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
  
  Abstract: How do we read women’s American antebellum poetry' Or do we at all' Some of us asking these question have, like Jennifer Putzi, found clues that suggest how to read the poems and why so few do now. But such a search requires the dedicated attention Putzi gives to poetry collections before the Civil War, women’s periodicals, library and personal archives, and newspapers. If we are looking for traditional conventions of lone Romantic poetic genius, we might simply dismiss the vast majority of these women and their works. Perhaps that is because we still do not “know how to read their poems” as Cheryl Walker observed in conversation thirty years ago. Putzi’s thoroughly researched Fair Copy: Relational Poetics and ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-05-17T00:00:00-05:00
Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction by Talia
Schaffer (review)
- Free pre-print version: Loading...
  Rate this result: What is this?
  
  Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating.
  A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
  
  Abstract: Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction by Talia Schaffer is a rare academic book that provides a fresh approach to Victorian literature, stimulates the scholarly mind, and offers sage lessons for academic life. As the subtitle promises, the book examines nineteenth-century fiction in which acts of care are omnipresent. Novels by Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Charlotte Mary Yonge, George Eliot, and Henry James offer a record of caregiving before and after the mid-century ascendance of paid care and care communities that we can emulate today. Schaffer is admittedly “trying to do a lot of tasks at once,” but she does these tasks with excellence (p. 2). The result is a capacious ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-05-17T00:00:00-05:00
Engaging Italy: American Women’s Utopian Visions and Transnational
Networks by Etta M. Madden (review)
- Free pre-print version: Loading...
  Rate this result: What is this?
  
  Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating.
  A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
  
  Abstract: It is a rare treat to sit in a nineteenth-century Roman salotto where upper-class American expatriates gather and exchange their impressions of Italy. This is what happens when you open Edda M. Madden’s volume Engaging Italy: American Women’s Utopian Visions and Transnational Networks. The book’s first pages bring the reader inside a Roman salon where American poet and educator Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is the guest of honor. The following pages leave the man behind to focus on three women who frequented these receptions—Emily Bliss Gould (1822–1875), Caroline Crane Marsh (1816–1901), and Anne Hampton Brewster (1819–1892)—and who asked the question, “What can we do to make this crazy, beautiful country better'” ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-05-17T00:00:00-05:00
The Rhetoric of Women’s Humour in Barbara Pym’s Fiction by
Naghmeh Varghaiyan (review)
- Free pre-print version: Loading...
  Rate this result: What is this?
  
  Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating.
  A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
  
  Abstract: As Naghmeh Varghaiyan makes clear in her introductory chapter of The Rhetoric of Women’s Humour in Barbara Pym’s Fiction, critics and reviewers have been in no doubt about the importance of humor in Barbara Pym’s novels. But there is also no doubt that critics, while recognizing this central feature, have failed to give it the close attention it deserves. The book’s importance, then, lies in Varghaiyan’s willingness to take on an essential, yet essentially impossible task (no one could be expected to convey how funny Pym is) head on. A more theoretically informed study could hardly be imagined. Her lengthy first chapter, “Characteristics of Women’s Humour,” cites studies by leading theorists (Eileen Gillooly ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-05-17T00:00:00-05:00
Shapeshifting Subjects: Gloria Anzaldúa’s Naguala and Border Arte by
Kelli D. Zaytoun (review)
- Free pre-print version: Loading...
  Rate this result: What is this?
  
  Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating.
  A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
  
  Abstract: Kelli D. Zaytoun’s Shapeshifting Subjects: Gloria Anzaldúa’s Naguala and Border Arte offers an exploration of Chicana feminist scholar Gloria Anzaldúa’s theories surrounding subjectivity and the power of identity and identity-making. Zaytoun focuses on Anzaldúa’s concept of nagualismo—a state of being in which change is possible and constant. To name processes of identity-making and shifting that build resiliency, Anzaldúa draws upon ways of knowing from Nahua (Aztec) cultures. Zaytoun brings this concept of nagualismo into conversation with Arab American feminism to illustrate how it can be applied to the navigation of shared experiences and the work toward solutions for marginalization. Zaytoun’s examination ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-05-17T00:00:00-05:00
The Elusive Everyday in the Fiction of Marilynne Robinson by Laura E.
Tanner (review)
- Free pre-print version: Loading...
  Rate this result: What is this?
  
  Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating.
  A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
  
  Abstract: Laura E. Tanner’s The Elusive Everyday in the Fiction of Marilynne Robinson argues that Robinson’s fiction has been underestimated. In critics easy praise of Robinson’s lyrical mastery—her ability to glorify the simple rhythms and textures of everyday experience—they have missed a more complex and insistent commitment to characters who are themselves hopelessly estranged from ordinary life. Where readers have tended to emphasize her novels’ unproblematic trajectories from loss to reconciliation, Tanner calls for a reversal. She observes that “[too] many critics have [. . .] ignored the way in which loss registers in Robinson’s fiction in the form of a mundane terror that manifests in the disrupted rhythms and ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-05-17T00:00:00-05:00
Women, Poetry and the Voice of a Nation by Anne Varty (review)
- Free pre-print version: Loading...
  Rate this result: What is this?
  
  Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating.
  A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
  
  Abstract: Women, Poetry and the Voice of a Nation by Anne Varty is a ground-breaking book that engages with the work of four laureate poets of the United Kingdom and Ireland: Gillian Clarke, Carol Ann Duffy, Liz Lochhead, and Paula Meehan. The book’s discussion focuses largely on the poets’ prose comments and manifesto-style pronouncements, looking at the ways they have made themselves visible in public space. Varty explores how these authors gained access to a poetry establishment dominated by men, how they critique prevailing representations of the home nation, and how they have gone from liminal positions to central ones. It also contains moments of close reading of individual poems in chapters devoted to each poet, as ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-05-17T00:00:00-05:00
Andrea Levy, in Memoriam ed. by Henghameh Saroukhani, Sarah Lawson Welsh,
and Michael Perfect (review)
- Free pre-print version: Loading...
  Rate this result: What is this?
  
  Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating.
  A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
  
  Abstract: This special issue of ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature commemorates the life and work of Black British writer Andrea Levy and is the inaugural issue of what editors call “Levy studies” (p. 11). Henghameh Saroukhani, Sarah Lawson Welsh, and Michael Perfect dedicate the issue and Levy studies to the “significance of [Levy’s] aesthetic and political legacy” (p. 9). The editors state that their desired focus for subsequent scholarship is to take more seriously Levy’s transnational and outer-national significance, and they selected the Canadian journal ARIEL to highlight the ways Levy’s work is also connected to places outside of the Caribbean that have been shaped by the British empire (p. 11). While ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-05-17T00:00:00-05:00