I "If You Enjoy It You Understand It": Gertrude Stein and Experimental Reading, or Will Breaking the Code Break the Silence / Sentence / Sequence / Cycle / Spell?

II She "Finds Her Exaltation in Resisting": Women's Responses to Patriarchal Faith in the Radcliffe Themes (1895) and The Making of Americans (1903-1911)

III. William James, Gertrude Stein, and the "Faith-State": Meanings of Mystical Repose and Quest in Quod Erat Demonstrandum

IV. "Can Women Have Wishes": Gender and Spiritual Narrative in "Lend a Hand or Four Religions" (1922)

V. Saving Grace: Woman-Centered Theology in Lucy Church Amiably (1927)

VI. Genius and Saint: The Contemplative Life in Four Saints in Three Acts (1927)

VII. "Serving God" and "Serving Mammon": Competing Modes of Literary Production in the Writings of Gertrude Stein

VIII. "Reject Rejoice Rejuvenate": Gertrude Steins's Feminist Critique of Spiritual and Literary Traditions

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