Contents

pp v-vii

List of Illustrations

pp viii-viii

List of Contributors

pp ix-xvi

Acknowledgments

pp xvii-xviii

Introduction: Making History: Thinking about Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry

pp 1-14

PART I - 1800–1840, AMERICAN POESIS AND THE NATIONAL IMAGINARY

pp 15-16

1 - Claiming Lucy Terry Prince: Literary History and the Problem of Early African American Women Poets

pp 17-36

2 - Before the Poetess: Women's Poetry in the Early Republic

pp 37-52

3 - The Passion for Poetry in Lydia Sigourney and Elizabeth Oakes Smith

pp 53-67

4 - Album Verse and the Poetics of Scribal Circulation

pp 68-86

5 - Presents of Mind: Lydia Sigourney, Gift Book Culture, and the Commodification of Poetry

pp 87-105

6 - The Friendship Elegy

pp 106-120

7 - Gendered Atlantic: Lydia Sigourney and Felicia Hemans

pp 121-136

PART II - 1840–1865, UNIONS AND DISUNIONS

pp 137-138

8 - Women, Transcendentalism, and The Dial: Poetry and Poetics

pp 139-154

9 - Poets of the Loom, Spinners of Verse: Working-Class Women's Poetry and The Lowell Offering

pp 155-169

10 - Women's Transatlantic Poetic Network

pp 170-185

11 - Making and Unmaking a Canon: American Women's Poetry and the Nineteenth-Century Anthology

pp 186-202

12 - “What witty sally”: Phoebe Cary's Poetics of Parody

pp 203-218

13 - Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry of Slavery and Abolition

pp 219-233

14 - Fever-Dreams: Antebellum Southern Women Poets and the Gothic

pp 234-247

15 - The Civil War Language of Flowers

pp 248-263

16 - Poetry and Bohemianism

pp 264-280

PART III - 1865–1900, EXPERIMENT AND EXPANSION

pp 281-282

17 - Women Poets and American Literary Realism

pp 283-297

18 - Verse Forms

pp 298-312

19 - Braided Relations: Toward a History of Nineteenth-Century American Indian Women's Poetry

pp 313-328

20 - Frances Harper and the Poetry of Reconstruction

pp 329-344

21 - “hear the bird”: Sarah Piatt and the Dramatic Monologue

pp 345-358