Contributor
Freedman, Diane P.
Imprint:Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c1995.
Descriptionxviii, 221 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Note:Ad feminan: women and literature / Sandra M. Gilbert -- PART I. MUSIC, MEMORY, MODERNISM: 1. Uncanny Millay / Suzanne Clark -- 2. Displaced modernism: Millay and the triumph of sentimentality / Jo Ellen Green Kaiser -- PART II. LOVE (AND) CONNECTION: 3. "How the speaking pen has been impeded": the rhetoric of love and selfhood in Millay and Rich / Ernest J. Smith -- 4. Rewriting the myth of the woman in love: Millay's fatal interview / Holly Peppe -- 5. Her mother's voice / Lisa Myers -- PART III. TIME'S BODY: 6. The female body as icon: Edna Millay wears a plaid dress / Cheryl Walker -- 7. Love's "little day": time and the sexual body in Millay's sonnets / Stacy Carson Hubbard -- 8. A moment's monument: Millay's sonnet and modern time / Robert Johnson -- 9. Vampirism and translation: Millay, bBaudelaire, and the erotics of poetic transfusion / Marilyn May Lombardi -- PART IV. MILLAY'S DRAMA OF IMPERSONATION: 10. "I could do a woman better than that": masquerade in Millay's potboilers / Deborah Woodard -- 11. "Directions for using the Empress": Millay's supreme fiction(s) / Sandra M. Gilbert -- 12. "Posies of sophistry": impersonation and authority in Millay's Conversation at Midnight / Susan Gilmore.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-209) and index.
