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Dedication
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. The American Hemans: Lydia Sigourney's Relational Poetics
Chapter 2. "The Songs Which All Can Sing": Imitation and Working Women's Poetry in the Lowell Offering
Chapter 3. "My Country": Communal Authorship and Citizenship in Sarah Louisa Forten's Liberator Poems
Chapter 4. "What Is Poetry?": Class, Collaboration, and the Making of Wales, and Other Poems

Chapter 5. "Some Queer Freak of Taste": Relational Poetics and Literary Proprietorship in the "Rock Me to Sleep" Controversy
Conclusion. Recovering the Unremarkable
Notes
Bibliography
Index