Feminine Forms & Functions

  • Leslie Smith Dow
    Anna Leonowens: A Life Beyond "The King and I".
  • Michael Danahy
    The Feminization of the Novel. University Press of Florida
  • Lenore Hoffman (Editor) and Margo Culley (Editor)
    Women's Personal Narratives: Essays in Criticism and Pedagogy. MLA
  • Laurie Langbauer
    Women and Romance: The Consolations of Gender in the English Novel. Cornell University Press
Reviewed by Deborah Blenkhorn
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This review “Feminine Forms & Functions” originally appeared in Nature, Politics, Poetics. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 136 (Spring 1993): 130-132.

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