Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I. Intertextuality and Authorial Interconnectedness -- 1. To Be a "Parlor Soldier": Susan Warner's Answer to Emerson's "Self-Reliance" -- 2. "Astra Castra": Emily Dickinson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, and Harriet Prescott Spofford -- 3. The War of Susie King Taylor -- 4. No Separations in the City: The Public-Private Novel and Private-Public Authorship -- Part II. Body Politics: Framing the Female Body -- 5. The Ungendered Terrain of Good Health: Mary Gove Nichols's Rewriting of the Diseased Institution of Marriage -- 6. Male Doctors and Female Illness in American Women's Fiction, 1850-1900 -- 7. Gender Bending: Two Role-Reversal Utopias by Nineteenth-Century Women -- Part III. On the Home Front and Beyond: Domesticity and the Marketplace -- 8. A Homely Business: Melusina Fay Peirce and Late-Nineteenth-Century Cooperative Housekeeping -- 9. Narratives of Domestic Imperialism: The African-American Home in the Colored American Magazine and the Novels of Pauline Hopkins, 1900-1903 -- 10. Public Women, Private Acts: Gender and Theater in Turn-of-the-Century American Novels -- Part IV. Sentimental Subversions -- 11. Gender Valences of Transcendentalism: The Pursuit of Idealism in Elizabeth Oakes-Smith's "The Sinless Child" -- 12. Sentimental Epistemologies in Uncle Tom's Cabin and The House of the Seven Gables -- 13. "I Try to Make the Reader Feel": The Resurrection of Bess Streeter Aldrich's A Lantern in Her Hand and the Politics of the Literary Canon -- Contributors -- Index.