The Prentice Hall Anthology of Women's Literature,9780130819741

The Prentice Hall Anthology of Women's Literature

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ISBN13: 9780130819741
ISBN10: 0130819743
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-01-01
Publisher(s): Prentice Hall
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Summary

For courses in Composition and Literature, Composition, Women's Literature/Women's Studies; Comparative Literature; and Feminism in Literature. Focusing on 20th century works, this manageable, chronological anthology takes an objective approach to women's literature, letting students experience each selection without any preconceptions or opening interpretations. Coverage spans from turn-of-the-century literature, through modernism and the pre-Second World War era, to post-war, contemporary literature and beyond, drawing selections from each major genre.

Table of Contents

Preface xix
Alice James (1848-1892)
From The Diary of Alice James
1(3)
Emma Lazarus (1849-1887)
The New Colossus
4(1)
Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)
Tom's Husband
5(10)
A White Heron
15(8)
Kate Chopin (1850-1904)
The Story of an Hour
23(2)
The Awakening
25(100)
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930)
125(13)
The Revolt of Mother
126(12)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)
138(17)
The Yellow Wallpaper
139(12)
Closed Doors
151(1)
The Real Religion
152(1)
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861-1907)
The Other Side of the Mirror
153(1)
Marriage
154(1)
Companionship
155(1)
Edith Wharton (1862-1937)
155(60)
The Other Two
155(15)
Her Son
170(45)
Mary Austin (1868-1934)
215(12)
The Basket Woman
215(5)
The Stream That Ran Away
220(3)
The Coyote-Spirit and the Weaving Woman
223(4)
Henry Handel Richardson (1870-1946)
227(4)
Two Hanged Women
227(4)
Amy Lowell (1874-1925)
231(7)
The Letter
231(1)
Summer Rain
232(1)
After a Storm
232(1)
The Sisters
233(5)
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)
238(26)
The Furr and Miss Skeene
238(4)
Gentle Lena
242(22)
Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson (1875-1935)
264(23)
I Sit and Sew
265(1)
The Goodness of St. Rocque
266(4)
Zora Neale Hurston (1881-1960)
Gilded Six Bits
270(8)
Sweat
278(9)
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
287(13)
From A Room of One's Own; Shakepeare's Sister
288(7)
The Mark on the Wall
295(5)
Susan Glaspell (1882-1948)
300(11)
Trifles
301(10)
Mina Loy (1882-1966)
311(3)
Moreover, the Moon---
312(1)
Lunar Baedeker
312(2)
Anne Spencer (1882-1975)
314(1)
Substitution
314(1)
Lady, Lady
315(1)
Anna Wickham (1884-1947)
315(2)
The Affinity
316(1)
Divorce
317(1)
Anzia Yezierska (1885-1970)
317(18)
My Own People from Hungry Hearts
318(9)
America and I
327(8)
Radclyffe Hall
335(14)
Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself
336(13)
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886-1961)
349(2)
Sea Rose
350(1)
Oread
350(1)
Helen
350(1)
Marianne Moore (1887-1972)
351(3)
Poetry
351(1)
When I Buy Flowers
352(1)
Hometown Piece for Messrs Alston and Reese
352(2)
Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923)
354(21)
Bliss
354(10)
The Garden-Party
364(11)
Anna Akhmatova (1888-1966)
375(3)
In Memory of M.B.
376(1)
Redwinged Birds
376(1)
The Guest
377(1)
Miriam Raskin (1889-1973)
378(3)
At a Picnic
378(3)
Jean Rhys (1890-1979)
381(8)
From Wide Sargasso Sea
382(7)
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
389(3)
[I, Being born a woman]
389(1)
Apostrophe to Man
390(1)
The Snow Storm
390(1)
[I will put Chaos into fourteen lines]
391(1)
Untitled Sonnet I
391(1)
Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
392(1)
Indian Summer
392(1)
The Little Old Lady in Lavender Silk
392(1)
Marita Bonner (1899-1971)
393(5)
On Being Young---a Woman---and Colored
394(4)
Meridel Le Sueur (1900-1996)
398(23)
From Salute to Spring: A Hungry Intellectual
398(7)
The Girl
405(16)
Stevie Smith (1902-1971)
421(1)
Not Waving but Drowning
421(1)
The New Age
421(1)
Sylvia Regan (1908-)
422(56)
Morning Star
423(55)
Under a Painted Smile
478(1)
We'll Bring the Rue de la Paix!
478(1)
Eudora Welty (1909-)
478(7)
A Worn Path
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
485(4)
The Fish
486(2)
Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore
488(1)
May Sarton (1912-1995)
489(3)
The Muse As Medusa
490(1)
Der Abschied
491(1)
Mary Lavin (1912-1966)
492(13)
The Nun's Mother
492(13)
Tillie Olsen (1912-)
505(6)
I Stand Here Ironing
505(6)
Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980)
511(3)
Study in a Late Subway
512(1)
Eccentric Motion
512(1)
To Be a Jew in the Twentieth Century
513(1)
Ruth Stone (1915-)
514(1)
Things I Say to Myself While Hanging Laundry
514(1)
Margaret Walker (1915-)
515(4)
For My People
516(2)
Chicago
518(1)
Southern Song
518(1)
Judith Wright (1915-)
519(4)
The Sisters
519(1)
To Another Housewife
520(1)
Naked Girl in the Mirror
521(1)
Counting in Sevens
522(1)
Lili Berger (1916-)
523(7)
On Saint Katherine's Day
523(7)
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-)
530(3)
Five Men Against the Theme ``My Name is Red Hot Yo Name Ain Doodley Squat''
531(1)
Friend
531(1)
The Mother
532(1)
Mary Tallmountain (1918-1994)
533(3)
The Last Wolf
533(1)
The Ivory Dog For My Sister
534(1)
There is No Word for Goodbye
535(1)
May Swenson (1919-1989)
536(3)
Sleeping with Boa
537(1)
View to the North
538(1)
How to Be Old
538(1)
Doris Lessing (1919-)
539(25)
To Room Nineteen
539(25)
Hisaye Yamamoto (1921-)
564(10)
Seventeen Syllables
565(9)
Grace Paley (1922-)
574(12)
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
575(11)
Denise Levertov (1923-1997)
586(2)
The Ache of Marriage
587(1)
Divorcing
587(1)
Bedtime
588(1)
Nadine Gordimer (1923-)
588(9)
Town and Country Lovers
Jane Cooper (1924-)
597(1)
Rent
597(1)
Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)
598(16)
Good Country People
598(16)
Carolyn Kizer (1925-)
614(3)
The Intruder
614(1)
A Window in Wintertime
615(1)
Thrall
616(1)
Maxine Kumin (1925-)
617(1)
Regret
617(1)
By Heart
618(1)
Anne Sexton (1928-1974)
618(2)
Said the Poet to the Analyst
619(1)
Her Kind
620(1)
Maya Angelou (1928-)
620(8)
From I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
621(5)
A Good Woman Feeling Bad
626(1)
A Georgia Song
626(2)
Cynthia Ozick (1928-)
628(4)
The Shawl
628(4)
Lore Segal (1928-)
632(10)
The Reverse Bug
632(10)
Ursula LeGuin (1929-)
642(9)
Some Approaches to the Problem of the Shortage of Time
643(2)
She Unnames Them
645(3)
The Professor's Houses
648(3)
Paule Marshall
651(13)
Barbados
652(12)
Adrienne Rich (1929-)
664(17)
When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision (1971)
664(13)
When We Dead Awaken
677(2)
Sisters
679(1)
Peeling Onions
680(1)
From a Survivor
680(1)
Toni Morrison (1931-)
681(15)
Recitatif
682(14)
Alice Munro (1931-)
696(14)
Visitors
696(14)
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
710(6)
Conversation Among the Ruins
710(1)
Channel Crossing
711(1)
Lady Lazarus
712(2)
Daddy
714(2)
Edna O'Brein (1936-)
716(6)
Number Ten
717(5)
Audre Lorde (1934-1992)
722(3)
Future Promise
723(1)
This Urn Contains Earth from German Concentration Camps
724(1)
Joan Didion (1934-)
725(4)
Holy Water
725(4)
Sonia Sanchez (1934-)
729(8)
After Saturday Night Comes Sunday
730(5)
Poem No. 2
735(1)
Blues
735(1)
Haiku
736(1)
To All Brothers: From All Sisters
736(1)
Lucille Clifton (1936-)
737(2)
Poem
737(1)
Album
738(1)
Marge Piercy (1936-)
739(1)
Barbie Doll
739(1)
The Woman in the Ordinary
740(1)
Bessie Head (1937-1986)
740(4)
Snapshots of a Wedding
741(3)
Joyce Carol Oates (1938-)
744(16)
Unmailed, Unwritten Letters
745(15)
Toni Cade-Bambara (1939-1995)
760(7)
The Lesson
761(6)
Margaret Atwood (1939-)
767(7)
Rape Fantasies
767(7)
Lynne Sharon Schwartz (1939-)
774(23)
The Melting Pot
774(23)
Angela (Olive) Carter (1940-1992)
797(7)
The Loves of Lady Purple
798(6)
Judy Grahn (1940-)
804(1)
Carol, in the park, chewing on straws
804(1)
II. Ella, in a square apron, along Highway 80
805(1)
Maxine Hong Kingston (1940-)
805(10)
No Name Woman
806(9)
Bobbie Ann Mason (1940-)
815(10)
Private Lies
815(10)
Bharati Mukherjee (1940-)
825(13)
The Management of Grief
826(12)
Pattiann Rogers (1940-)
838(3)
Nearing Autobiography
839(1)
Counting What the Cactus Contains
840(1)
Irena Klepfisz (1941-)
841(5)
Dedication from Bashert
841(2)
Etlekhe verter oyf mame-loshn (A few words in the mother tongue)
843(2)
Royal Pearl
845(1)
Isabel Allende (1942-)
846(7)
From The Stories of Eva Luna: If You Touched My Heart
846(7)
Rayna Green (1942-)
853(2)
When I Cut My Hair
853(1)
Coosaponakeesa (Mary Matthews Musgrove Bosomworth), Leader of the Creeks, 1700-1783
854(1)
Sharon Olds (1942-)
855(4)
The Knowing
855(1)
Why My Mother Made Me
856(1)
My Mother's College
857(1)
I Cannot Forget the Woman in the Mirror
858(1)
Gail Galloway Adams (1943-)
859(13)
The Purchase of Order
859(13)
Nikki Giovanni (1943-)
872(3)
Nikki-Rosa
873(1)
Woman
873(1)
For Saundra
874(1)
Louise Gluck (1943-)
875(1)
Illuminations
875(1)
Nancy Mairs (1943-)
875(10)
Carnal Acts
877(8)
Kathryn Stripling Byer (1944-)
885(1)
Diamonds
885(1)
Alice Walker (1944-)
886(10)
The Flowers
887(1)
In Search of Our Mother's Gardens
888(8)
Ann Beattie (1947-)
896(8)
What Was Mine
896(8)
Laura Cunningham (1947-)
904(13)
From Sleeping Arrangements
905(12)
Linda Hogan (1947-)
917(3)
Leaving
917(2)
Song for My Name
919(1)
The Hands
920(1)
Melissa Pritchard (1948-)
920(10)
The Instinct for Bliss
920(10)
Leslie Marmon Silko (1948-)
930(20)
Lullaby
931(7)
Storyteller
938(12)
Lynn Emanuel (1949-)
950(1)
Inventing Father in Las Vegas
950(1)
Jamaica Kincaid (1949-)
951(6)
Alien Soil
951(6)
Diane Burns (1950-)
957(3)
Big Fun
957(2)
Gadoshkibos
959(1)
Carolyn Forche (1950-)
960(1)
The Colonel
960(1)
Gloria Naylor (1950-)
961(13)
From the Women of Brewster Place: Etta Mae Johnson
961(13)
Joy Harjo (1951-)
974(4)
She Had Some Horses
975(1)
Remember
976(1)
Your Phone Call At 8 A.M.
977(1)
Angela Jackson (1951-)
978(3)
Caesura
978(1)
Song of the Writer Woman
979(1)
Angel
980(1)
Judith Ortiz-Cofer (1952-)
981(5)
Primary Lessons
982(4)
Rita Dove (1952-)
986(2)
Canary
987(1)
After Reading Mickey in the Night Kitchen for the Third Time Before Bed
987(1)
Naomi Shihab Nye (1952-)
988(9)
Newcomers in a Troubled Land
988(9)
Making a Fist
997(1)
Kitty Tsui (1952-)
997(5)
Don't Call Me Sir, Call Me Strong
998(1)
Chinatown Talking Story
999(3)
Ana Castillo (1953-)
1002(2)
And All Octobers Become One
1003(1)
The Antihero
1004(1)
Sara Suleri Goodyear (1953-)
1004(13)
Excellent Things In Women
1005(12)
Luci Tapahonso (1953-)
1017(3)
Sheepherder Blues
1018(1)
Blue Horses Rush In
1019(1)
Sandra Cisneros (1954-)
1020(2)
Six Brothers
1020(2)
My Wicked Wicked Ways
1022(1)
Louise Erdrich (1954-)
1022(9)
Skunk Dreams
1023(8)
Marilyn Chin (1955-)
1031(3)
How I Got That Name
1032(2)
Rebecca Brown (1956-)
1034(8)
From the Gifts of the Body: The Gift of Hunger
1035(7)
Elizabeth Alexander (1962-)
1042(4)
Ladders
1043(1)
House Party Sonnet: '66
1043(1)
Nineteen
1044(1)
Boston Year
1044(1)
``Radio Days''
1045(1)
Jill Bialosky
1046(1)
From Fathers in the Snow (1, 2, 7)
1046(1)
Allegra Goodman (1967-)
1047(17)
Variant Text
1048(16)
Nan Cohen (1968-)
1064(1)
A Newborn Girl at Passover
1064(1)
Ann Cummins (1954-)
1065(7)
Where I Work from A Room of One's Own
1065(7)
Credits 1072(7)
Index 1079

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