From the contents: Virginia BLAIN: Be these his daughters?: Caroline Bowles Southey, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and disruption in a patriarchal poetics of women

Silence, gender, and the sonnet revival -- Breaking "the silent Sabbath of the grave" : romantic women's sonnets and the "mute arbitress" of grief -- "In silenc

In Plain Sight explores how the poetry of nineteenth-century American women that was once so visible within American culture could have, with the exception of t

Arguing that the end of the eighteenth-century witnessed the emergence of an important female poetic tradition, Claire Knowles analyzes the poetry of several ke