Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Women Writers and the Outlaw Form of the Short Story -- A Miniaturization of Epic Proportions: Harriet Prescott Spofford's "Circumstance" -- Sexing the Narrator: Gender in Rebecca Harding Davis's "Life in the Iron-Mills" -- The Short Story as Feminist Forum: Louisa May Alcott's "Pauline's Passion and Punishment" -- The Art of (Dis)Placement: Ruth Stuart and the Characterization of African Americans at the Turn of the Century -- The Linked Excitements of L. T. Meade and… in the Strand Magazine -- Naturalism and the Short Story Form: Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" -- Strategies of Self-Representation in "Natalie" by Alice Dunbar-Nelson -- Zitkala-Ša's and Sui Sin Far's Sketch Collections: Communal Characterization as Resistance Writing Tool -- Laura's Unconscious Rejection of the Short Story in Katherine Anne Porter's "Flowering Judas" -- "Beyond Human Reach": Silence and Contiguity in Katherine Anne Porter's "Holiday" and "He" -- Flannery O'Connor's "The Temple of the Holy Ghost" and "Parker's Back" as Dermatology/Theology -- Cynthia Ozick's "The Pagan Rabbi" and the Seduction of the Storyteller -- Breaking It Down: Analysis in the Stories of Lydia Davis -- Silko, Le Sueur, and Le Guin: Storytelling as a "Movement Toward Wholeness" -- Contributors -- Index.