Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Preface xi
5. Acknowledgments xiii
6. Abbreviations xv
7. Introduction: Poetry in the Public Sphere 1
8. PART ONE
9. 1. Literary Sentimentality and the Genteel Lyric 15
10. 2. High Sentimentality and the Politics of Reform 40
11. 3. The Politics and Poetics of Difference 62
12. 4. Harper, Parnell, Lazarus, and Johnson 86
13. PART TWO
14. 5. Domestic Gothic and Sentimental Parody 111
15. 6. Irony's Edge: Sarah Piatt and the Postbellum Speaker 135
16. 7. Sex, Sexualities, and Female Erotic Discourse 159
17. 8. Making It New in the Fin de Siecle 181
18. CODA After 1910 205
19. Notes 217
20. Index 253