Introduction : contextualizing feminist narratology / The look, the body, and the heroine of Persuasion : a feminist-narratological View of Jane Austen / Discourse, gender, and gossip : some reflections on Bakhtin and Emma / Who is speaking here? : free indirect discourse, gender, and authority in Emma, Howards end, and Mrs. Dalloway / Parsing the female sentence : the paradox of containment in Virginia Woolf's narratives / Spatialization, narrative theory, and Virginia Woolf's The voyage out / The rhetoric of feminist conversation : Virginia Woolf and the trope of the twist / The terror and the ecstasy : the textual politics of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway / Seismic orgasm : sexual intercourse and narrative meaning in Mina Loy / Ironies of politeness in Anita Brookner's Hotel du lac / Angela Carter's new Eve(lyn) : de/en-gendering narrative / Queering narratology / Coda : incredulity toward metanarrative : negotiating postmodernism and feminisms / Select bibliography on feminist narratology