Women's poetry, late Romantic to late Victorian: gender and genre, 1830-1900

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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

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