Anne Tyler as Novelist Book

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
1	Early Years and Influences	1
2	The Early Novels: A Reconsideration	15
3	Tyler and Feminism	33
4	Manacles of Fear: Emotional Affliction in Tyler's Works	43
5	Breakdowns and Breakthroughs: The Hysterical Use of Language	50
6	Crepe Soles, Boots, and Fringed Shawls: Female Dress as Signals of Femininity	65
7	Functions of (Picturing) Memory	77
8	Marcel Proust, Involuntary Memory, and Tyler's Novels	86
9	Forgetting and Remembering: In Praise of Tyler's Older Women	99
10	Family Ways	115
11	Loosened Roots	120
12	Beauty and the Transformed Beast: Fairy Tales and Myths in Morgan's Passing	125
13	Everybody Speaks	138
14	Exploration of a Not-So-Accidental Novel	147
15	The Accidental Tourist and The Odyssey	155
16	Breathing Lessons: A Domestic Success Story	162
17	Tyler's Literary Reputation	175
	Notes on the Contributors	197
	Notes to the Text	201
	Selected Bibliography	219
	Index	223