Private Voices, Public Lives:  Women Speak on the Literary Life
Private Voices, Public Lives: Women speak on the Literary Life is a collection of essays arguing for a more interactive and cooperative approach to the teaching, reading, critiquing, and writing of literature. Private Voices, Public Lives is of critical importance to readers, teachers, reviewers and critics. The essays incorporate ideas on current issues of autobiography, women's voice, reader response, diversity,a nd gender. Part I: The Work/Love Paradigm includes essays on Katherine Anne Porter, Willa Cather, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and others. Part II: The Text as Mirror includes essays on Adrienne Rich, Amy Tan, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Kathleen Norris, and others. Part III: Teaching and Writing the Self includes essays on Dr. Benjamin Spock, Virginia Woolf, Hart Crane, and others. Private Voices, Public Lives is one of the most exciting approaches to literary evaluation and assessment to come along in a several decades.  --Midwest Book Review