Contents
Preface: "Are Girls Necessary?" xi
Introduction: "I Have a Narrative" 1
Part I: "Tell the Lacadaemonians"
1. Willa Cather's New World Histories 41
2. Mary Renault's Greek Drama 61
Part II: "Love is Writing"
3. Washington, James, (Toklas), and Stein 81
4. Djuna Barnes, Memory, and Forgetting 121
5. Virginia Woolf and the Sexual Histories of Literature 139
Afterword: "Reading and the Experiences of Everyday Life" 169
Notes 173
Index 207