附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-237) and index.
Introduction: Unspeakable plots -- Prelude: Origins and paradigms: Electra, Demeter, Clytemnestra -- Female family romances -- A more archaic murder: Freud, Austen, Brontes, Shelley, Sand, Chopin -- Fraternal plots -- Beyond repetition: Eliot -- The darkest plots -- Narration and the compulsory heterosexuality: Freud, Horney, Woolf, Colette, Wharton -- Feminist family romances -- Life before Oedipus: Rich, Chodorow, Irigaray, Atwood, Duras, Wolf -- Feminist Discourse-maternal discourse -- Speaking with two voices: Kristeva, Suleiman, Ruddick, Johnson, Morrison, Walker.
摘要:Includes information on anger, Margaret Atwood, Emma (Jane Austen), authority, The Awakening (Kate Chopin), Beloved (Toni Morrison), Nancy Chodorow, Clytemnestra and Electra, death, Demeter and Persephone, Daniel Deronda (George Eliot), Marguerite Duras, Everyday Use (Alice Walker), family romance, father, femininity, gender difference, heterosexuality, Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, male, males, masculine, men, marriage plot, maternal, Oedipal theory, Oneʼs Own (Walker), patriarchy, plot, plot (female), pre-oedipal, procreation, Adrienne Rich, romance (love) plot, A Room of Oneʼs Own (Woolf), Sara Ruddick, separation from mother, Sula (Morrison), Susan Rubin Suleiman, Surfacing (Atwood), To the Lighthouse (Woolf), triangular relationships, voice, Edith Wharton, Christa Wolf, Virginia Woolf, etc.