Table of Contents:
  • On romanticism and feminism / Anne K. Mellor
  • Silencing the female. Romanticism and the colonization of the feminine / Alan Richardson
  • Romantic quest and conquest. Troping masculine power in the crisis of poetic identity / Marlon B. Ross
  • The cult of domesticity. Dorothy and William Wordsworth at Grasmere / Kurt Heinzelman
  • Writing the female. Harassing the muse / Karen Swann
  • The writer's ravishment. Women and the romantic author
  • the example of Byron / Sonia Hofkosh
  • Witch or pawn. Women in Scott's narrative poetry / Nancy Moore Goslee
  • The women respond. Individual in community. Dorothy Wordsworth in conversation with William / Susan J. Wolfson
  • "On needle-work." Protest and contradiction in Mary Lamb's essay / Jane Aaron
  • Romantic poetry. The I altered / Stuart Curran
  • An early romance. Motherhood and women's writing in Mary Wollstonecraft's novels / Laurie Langbauer
  • Possessing nature. The female in Frankenstein / Anne K. Mellor.