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Volume 6, Number 3 (1991) Draftings In Voices, Costumes and Mirrors: Feminist Theory and New Concepts of the Self in the American Novel

Front Matter

Cover - Front Matter - Table of Contents

Prefatory Note

Prefatory Note
Theodore Hovet

Part I

Part I. In a Different Voice: New Light on Moral and Psychological Development

Isabel Archer and the Persephone Myth: A Psychological Case Study
Donna Mallin

Self-Identity and Moral Responsibility in the House of Mirth
Joan Loslo

Lily Bart: A Surfacing Inner Voice
L. Christine White

Part II

Part II. Self in a Commodity Culture

Dreiser's Consumer Culture: Fashion and Material Reality in Sister Carrie
Lisa Lucas

Staging in Carrie's Psychological Development: Does She or Doesn't She?
Kimberly Muta

The Commodification of Self and the Undermining of Lily Bart's Identity
Kitty Kau Burroughs

Part III

Part III. Changing Concepts of Gender Identity

Isabel Archer's Romantic Identity Quest: Ruin and Realization
Alan Lange

George Hurstwood's Artificial Self
Richard L. Campbell

Part IV

Part IV. The Self from a Postmodernist Perspective

James's "Lady" in Postmodernity
James P. McDaniel

Carrie Meeber and the Reflected Self
Michael T. Prahl

Contributors