Diana Tril-
ling, in Partisan Review (no. 4, 1978), Bos-
ton University, 19 Deerfieid St., Boston,
Mass. 02215.
A new presence has arrived on the literary scene, says critic Trilling. This is the liberated heroine, "a fictional creation whose first concern is the exploration and realization of female selfhood."
No sudden apparition, she has been evolving throughout literary his- tory. From Clytemnestra and Antigone, to Henry James's Isabel Archer and the modern creations of Joan...