What manner of woman : [electronic resource] essays on English and American life and literature / edited by Marlene Springer.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The portrayal of women by Chaucer and his age / Ann S. Haskell -- The changing image of woman in Renaissance society and literature / Catherine M. Dunn -- Praising virtuous ladies: the literary image and historical reality of women in seventeenth-century England / David J. Latt -- The portrayal of women in Restoration and eighteenth-century English literature / John J. Richetti -- Gender and genre: women in British romantic literature / Irene Tayler and Gina Luria -- Angels and other women in Victorian literature / Marlene Springer -- Marriage perceived: English literature 1873-1941 / Carolyn G. Heilbrun -- Images of women in early American literature / Ann Stanford -- Portrayal of women in American literature, 1790-1870 / Nina Baym -- They shall have faces, minds, and (one day) flesh: women in late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century American literature / Martha Banta -- "Combat in the erogenuous zone": women in the American novel between the two world wars / James W. Tuttleton -- Second-class citizenship: the status of women in contemporary American fiction / Martha Masinton and Charles G. Masinton -- "Free in fact and at last": the image of the Black woman in Black American literature / Elizabeth Schultz.