Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Lydia Sigourney: From Reinvention to Reconsideration
Part One. Sigourney’s Works
2. Remodeling the Kitchen in Parnassus: Sigourney’s Poetics of Collaboration
3. A Sense of the Material Object: Sigourney’s Fabric Poems
4. Engaging Contradictions: Sigourney’s Sketch of Connecticut, Forty Years Since
5. From “American Hemans” to Global Savant: The Structure of Sentimental Cosmopolitanism in Sigourney’s Pleasant Memories of Pleasant Lands
6. “You Sink the Woman, & the Wife, in the Writer”: Sigourney and the Feminist Literary Atlantic
7. Baby to Baby: Sigourney and the Origins of Cuteness
Part Two. The Work of Sigourney
8. Common Ground: The Figure of the Female Poet in Sigourney’s Lucy Howard’s Journal and E.D.E.N. Southworth’s The Bridal Eve
9. “Exil’d Murmurings”: “The American Hemans” and the Politics of Displacement
10. “Several Sigourneys”: Circulation, Reprint Culture, and Sigourney’s Educational Prose
11. Sigourney’s Poetry of Death
12. Teaching through Others: Sigourney, Emerson, and the Didactic Culture of Transcendentalism
13. Lydia’s Legacy: My Journey as a Postmodern Poetess
Afterword
Contributors
Index
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