Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: The Gender of Freedom and Women in Public 1
5. 1 Gender, Liberal Theory, and the Literary Public Sphere 11
6. 2 Puritan Bodies and Transatlantic Texts 49
7. 3 Contracting Marriage in the New Republic 116
8. 4 Sociality and Sentiment 197
9. Coda: Queering Marriage-Emily Dickinson and the Poetics of Title 237
10. Notes 257
11. Works Cited 287
12. Index 305