"I am particularly impressed with Bloomberg s insights about the ways in which women writers urge to harness the power of women s myths has to some extent been aroused by historical forces. . . . She explains that women s desire to reinvent their identities requires that women writers take over the narrative tools (such as mythic allusions) provided them by male writers and use those tools to build their own textual house. "--Mary Lowe-Evans, University of West Florida

Tracing Arachne's Web examines the use of myth in works by American women novelists of the late 19th and...