"First published 1989 by Routledge"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

The letter as cutting edge -- Finding feminist readings: Dante-Yeats -- Unmaking and making in To the lighthouse -- Sex and history in the Prelude (1805): books nine to thirteen -- Feminism and critical theory -- Reading the Worlds: literary studies in the eighties -- Explanation and culture: marginalia -- The politics of interpretations -- French fe minism in an international frame -- Scattered speculations on the quest ions of value -- "Draupadi" by Mahasweta Devi -- Subaltern studies: dec onstructing historiography -- "Breast-giver" by Mahasweta Devi -- A lit erary representation of the Subaltern: a woman's text from the Third Wo rld.