TABLE OF CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CRIMELESS FEMININITY -- THE LAW OF GENDER -- LADY AUDLEY AND LYDIA GWILT -- RE-WRITING A WOMAN'S CRIME -- TESS THE MURDERESS, EUSTACIA THE ADDER -- "THE IMP OF THE PERVERSE" -- FROM THE MURDERER'S SOLILOQUY TO THE POISONER'S MONOLOGUE -- FROM CONFIDENT TO MURDERER -- RED BEADS AND FUNERAL HOMES -- ANTIGONE LOST IN "THE FURY OF THE AGE OF BAR-ROOMS" -- THE OBSCENE TRAGEDY OF THE DEATH DRIVE IN I HARDLY KNEW YOU, BY EDNA O'BRIEN -- THE MILKY WAKE:SACRIFICE AS JOUISSANCE IN TONI MORRISON'S WORK -- CONTRIBUTORS.