Bundel essays, waarin het denken over 'de vrouw' in de Romantiek in Engeland en Noord-Amerika centraal staat. De volgende bijdragen zijn opgenomen: Feminine romanticism, masculine history, and the founding of the modern liberal state / door Gary Kelly: Flogging: the anti-slavery movement writes pornography / door Mary Favret: Barbauld, Romanticism, and the survival of dissent / door William Keach: Barbauld's domestic economy / door Josephine McDonagh: Commodities among themselves : reading/desire in early women's magazines / door Sonia Hofkosh: Letitia Landon: public fantasy and the private sphere / door Emma Francis: Emily Dickinson and the Romantic comparative / door Daria Donnelly: 'Precious allusions': female muses and authorising writing / door Bridget Bennett: 'No trump bid' on Romanticism and gender / door Ira Livingston.