Women’s Poetry, Late Romantic to Late Victorian

Acknowledgements Introduction; I.Armstrong & V.Blain PART ONE: CHANGING GENRES AND CODES ACROSS THE CENTURY: WAYS OF THEORISING WOMEN'S POETRY Misrepresentation: Codes of Affect and Politics in 19th-Century Women's Poetry; I.Armstrong The Whip Signature: Violence, Feminism and Women Poets; C.Walker Caroline Norton, 'The Picture of Sappho'; Y.Prins PART TWO: THE MARKET AND THE POETESS: COMMERCIAL AND AESTHETIC VALUE The Poet and the Profits: Felicia Hemans and the Literary Marketplace; P.R.Feldman Bijous Beyond Possession: The Prima Donnas of L.E.L.'s Album Poems; C.E.Lawford Rewriting A History of the Lyre : Letitia Landon, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and the (Re)Construction of the 19th-Century Woman Poet; L.H.Peterson PART THREE: LESBIAN POETICS Sexual Politics of the (Victorian) Closet or : No Sex Please - We're Poets; V.Blain 'I Leave a Page Half-Writ': Narrative Discoherence in Michael Field's Underneath the Bough ; R.P.Fletcher Contradictions? - Amy Levy: Feminism and Semitic Discourse; E.Francis PART FOUR: COLONIAL POETICS, NATIONAL IDENTITY Hearing Her Own Voice: Defective Acoustics in Colonial India; M.Mukherjee Reviving Laurence Hope; E.Marx Hemans and Her American Heirs: Nineteenth-Century Women's Poetry and National Identity; T.Lootens PART FIVE: REMAKING DISCOURSES: GROTESQUE, DEVOTIONAL, SCIENTIFIC 'All Mouth and Trousers': Christina Rossetti's Grotesque and Abjected Bodies; K.Burlinson Mysteries Beyond Angels in Christina Rossetti's From House to Home ; L.E.Marshall Theology and the Jewish Woman Poet; C.Scheinberg Victorian Women Poets and Scientific Narratives; H.Groth PART SIX: REREADING FORGOTTEN POETS Adelaide Procter: A Poetics of Reserve and Passion; G.Gregory Why is This Woman Still Missing? Emily Pfeiffer, Victorian Poet; K.Hickock Endnote; C.Kaplan Index