Съдържание:
  • Introduction
  • Changing contexts
  • Systems, gender, and persistent issues
  • Agency and the "marked marker"
  • Anne Finch and what women wrote
  • The social and the formal
  • Anne Finch and popular poetry
  • Poetry on poetry
  • The spleen as legacy
  • Women and poetry in the public eye
  • Poetry as news and critique
  • The woman question
  • Elizabeth Singer Rowe
  • Hymns, narratives, and innovations in religious poetry
  • The voice of paraphrase
  • The hymn as personal lyric
  • Religious poetry as subversive narrative
  • Devout soliloquies
  • Friendship poems
  • The legacy of Katherine Philips
  • Encouragement and the counteruniverse
  • Jane Brereton
  • Adaptation and ideology
  • Retirement poetry
  • Beyond convention
  • Memory, time, and Elizabeth Carter
  • Reflection and difference
  • The elegy
  • What did women write?
  • Representative composers: Darwall and Seward
  • The elegy and same-sex desire
  • Entertainment and forgetting
  • The sonnet, Charlotte Smith, and what women wrote
  • The sonnet and the political
  • Sonnet sequences
  • Women poets and the spread of the sonnet
  • The emigrants, conversations, and Beachy Head
  • Smith as transitional poet.