"Introduction" / Mary Louise Kete and Elizabeth A. Petrino
1."Lydia Sigourney: From re-invention to re-consideration" / Mary Louise Kete and Elizabeth A. Petrino
Section One: Sigourney's works. "Remodeling the kitchen in Parnassus : Sigourney's poetics of collaboration" / Jennifer Putzi; "A sense of the material object: Lydia sigourney's fabric poems" / Joan Wry
"Engaging contradictions: Lydia Sigourney's sketch of Connecticut, forty years since" / Sandra Zagarell; "From 'American hemans' to global savant: The structure of sentimental cosmopolitanism in Lydia Sigourney's pleasant Memories of pleasant lands (1842)" / Sean Epstein-Corbin; "You sink the woman, & the wife, in the writer': Lydia Sigourney and the feminist literary Atlantic" / Gary Kelly; "Baby to baby: Lydia Sigourney and the origins of cuteness" / Angela Sorby
Section Two: The work of Sigourney. "Common ground: The figure of the female poet in Lydia Huntley Sigourney's Lucy Howard's Journal and E.D.E.N. Southworth's The bridal eve" / Ann Beebe; "'Exil'd murmurings': 'The American hemans' and the politics of displacement" / Janet Dean; "'Several Sigourneys': Circulation, reprint culture, and Lydia Sigourney's educational prose" / Amy J. Lueck; "Sigourney's poetry of death" / Paul Lauter; "Emerson, Sigourney, and the didactic culture of transcendentalism" / Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso; "The poetess and the witch: Revisiting Lydia" / Annie Finch
"Afterword" / Paula Bernat Bennett.