Includes bibliographical references.

pt. I Finding Atlantis---and Growing into Feminism -- Becoming a Feminist Together---and Apart: Notes on Collaboration and Identity -- Finding Atlantis: Thirty Years of Exploring Women?s Literary Traditions in English -- What Do Feminist Critics Want? Or, A Postcard from the Volcano -- The Education of Henrietta Adams -- A Tarantella of Theory: Helene Cixous and Catherine Clement?s Newly Born Woman -- Reflections on a (Feminist) Discourse of Discourse, or, Look, Ma, I?m Talking! -- pt. II Reading and Rereading Women?s Writing -- "My Name Is Darkness": The Poetry of Self-Definition -- "A Fine, White Flying Myth": The Life/Work of Sylvia Plath -- The Wayward Nun Beneath the Hill: Emily Dickinson and the Mysteries of Womanhood -- Jane Eyre and the Secrets of Furious Lovemaking -- The Key to Happiness: On Frances Hodgson Burnett?s The Secret Garden -- "Dare You See a Soul at the White Heat?": Thoughts on a "Little Home-keeping Person" -- pt. III Mother Rites: Maternity, Matriarchy, Creativity -- From Patria to Matria: Elizabeth Barrett Browning?s Risorgimento -- "Life?s Empty Pack": Notes Toward a Literary Daughteronomy -- Potent Griselda: Male Modernists and the Great Mother -- Mother Rites: Maternity, Matriarchy, Creativity.