Contents: The city as catalyst for Flora Tristan's vision of social change / Sandra Dijkstra -- Marguerite Duras : women's language in men's cities / Susan Rava -- Return to Mytilène : Renée Vivien and the city of women / Elyse Blankley -- George Eliot and the city : the imprisonment of culture / Nancy L. Paxton -- Every woman is an island : Vita Sackville-West, the image of the city, and the pastoral idyll / Louise A. Desalvo -- Tradition and revision : the classic city novel and Virginia Woolf's Night and day / Susan Merrill Squier -- A wilderness of one's own : feminist fantasy novels of the twenties : Rebecca West and Sylvia Townsend Warner / Jane Marcus -- "A gigantic mother" : Katherine Mansfield's London / Sydney Janet Kaplan -- Reading the city as palimpsest : the experiential perception of the city in Dois Lessing's The four-gated city / Christine W. Sizemore -- Quest for the peaceable kingdom : urban/rural codes in Roy, Laurence, and Atwood / Sherrill E. Grace -- Willa Cather's lost Chicago sisters / Sidney H. Bremer -- "A laying on of hands" : transcending the city in Ntozake Shange's for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf / Carolyn Mitchell -- Another view of the "city upon a hill" : the prophetic vision of Adrienne Rich / Wendy Martin -- Sister to Faust : the city's hungry" woman as heroine / Blanche H. Gelfant -- Literature and the city : a checklist of relevant secondary works / Susan Merrill Squier

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