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Table of contents
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments / ix
Introduction / xi
Author's Note / xvii
One To Be Our Own Audience: The Theater of the Woman's Text / 1
Two Reading as Seeing: A Spectacular View of Our Selves / 19
Three The Displaying Text: The Woman's Novel as [Auto]Biography / 41
Four The Fundamental Conversation / 49
Five Getting Back to the Spoken Word: / 70
Six The Intratext / 110
Seven The Woman Writer as Reader: The Dream-Text of / 127
Eight The Other Side: "Rochester 's" Narrative in / 194
Postscript The Lesson of the Text: Why Literature? / 248
Notes / 257
Bibliography / 271
Index / 281
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