Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vi
4. Acknowledgments viii
5. Introduction: Framed, Imprisoned, Overheard 1
6. 1. Gothic Overhearing: Inquisition, Confession, and Accusation in Browning’s Dramatic Monologues 33
7. 2. The Gothic Poetess: Self-Confinement in the Sonnet Cell 90
8. 3. Gothic Shock and Swap: Suspended Bodies and Fluctuating Frames in D. G. Rossetti’s Double Works 144
9. 4. The Cloistered Cleric: Confessional, Confinement, and Hopkins’s Poetics of Wavering 210
10. Conclusion. Emily Brontë’s Udolphics: The Gondal and Non-Gondal Poems 258
11. Bibliography 281
12. Index 299