The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women’s Poetry - Title page

pp iii-iii

Copyright page

pp iv-iv

Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

Illustrations

pp ix-ix

Contributors

pp x-xiii

Acknowledgments

pp xiv-xiv

Chronology of Publications and Events

pp xv-xx

Introduction

pp 1-10

Part I - Form and the Senses

pp 11-94

1 - Genres

pp 13-27

2 - Prosody

pp 28-44

3 - Haunted by Voice

pp 45-58

4 - Floating Worlds

pp 59-78

5 - Embodiment and Touch

pp 79-94

Part II - Women’s Poetry in the World

pp 95-178

6 - Publishing and Reception

pp 97-113

7 - Transatlanticism, Transnationality, and Cosmopolitanism

pp 114-128

8 - Dialect, Region, Class, Work

pp 129-144

9 - Politics, Protest, Interventions

pp 145-160

10 - Religion and Spirituality

pp 161-178

Part III - Nurturance and Contested Naturalness

pp 179-246

11 - Children’s Poetry

pp 181-196

12 - Marriage, Motherhood, and Domesticity

pp 197-212

13 - Sexuality

pp 213-229

14 - Poets of Style: Poetries of Asceticism and Excess

pp 230-246

Part IV - Reading Victorian Women’s Poetry

pp 247-265

15 - Distant Reading and Victorian Women’s Poetry

pp 249-265

Afterword - Nineteenth-Century Women’s Poetry in the Field of Vision

pp 266-276