Critical essays on Kay Boyle Book

	General Editor's Note
	Publisher's Note
	Acknowledgment
	Introduction	1
	Reviews
	The Somnambulists	27
	Too Good to Be Smart	31
	Kay Boyle: Example to the Young	33
	Inescapable End	37
	Kay Boyle's Story of a Moral Crisis	39
	Miss Boyle's Irony	41
	The International vs. the Local Outlook	43
	An Unhabitual Way	46
	Three Unusual Stories by Kay Boyle	48
	Review of Primer for Combat	50
	Kay Boyle's Coincidence and Melodrama	52
	The Mature Craft of Kay Boyle	55
	Avalanche in the Haute-Savoie	58
	In Germany the Ruins Still Smolder	60
	Hope out of France	62
	The Light and the Dark	65
	Aristocrat of the Short Story	67
	Those Paris Years	70
	The Telling of the Story	74
	Moving and Maturing	77
	60 Years of Passion and Compassion	81
	Old Novel Offers Insights into Nazism	84
	Criticism
	Kay Boyle	89
	The Revolution of the Word	96
	My Next Bride: Kay Boyle's Text of the Female Artist	123
	Tails You Lose: Kay Boyle's War Fiction	135
	Call Forth a Good Day: The Nonfiction of Kay Boyle	143
	Introduction to the 1989 reprint of Death of a Man	150
	Revolution, the Woman, and the Word: Kay Boyle	157
	Entering the World of Politics	183
	Abortion, Identity Formation, and the Expatriate Woman Writer: H. D. and Kay Boyle in the Twenties	211
	Kay Boyle, Always a Poet	228
	Female Roles and National Identity in Kay Boyle's Plagued by the Nightingale and Edith Wharton's Madame de Treymes	241
	Advancing Literary Women: Edith Wharton, Kay Boyle, and My Next Bride	262
	Absence and the Figure of Desire in Kay Boyle's Monday Night	276
	Life-Giving: Kay Boyle's Innovations in Autobiography in Being Geniuses Together	299
	Index	313