This feminist recuperation of the work of numerous women across the Romantic and Victorian periods presented in this monograph puts not only the canon of poetry under interrogation but also periodisation. Using a number of previously unknown women poets, and a new elaboration of the significance of the work of Rosamund Marriott Watson, this study intersects with some of the most exciting current debates in nineteenth-century studies, around, for example, the uses of sentimentality and emotion, material culture, the archive, and parody.

Lee Christine O'Brien is a lecturer at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.

Introduction
Chapter One: Reading Nineteenth-Century Women's Poetry in the Twenty-First Century
Readers and Reading
Domestic Space
Performance and Parody
The Parodic Performance of Romance
Chapter Two: From Rags to Verses: Technology, Fugitive Poetry and the Domestic as Ephemera
Creating the Ephemera of Home
Fugitive Pieces
The Poor Author's, the Printer's, and the Publisher's Pudding
Chapter Three: Lyric Space and Romance Forms
Chapter Four: Uncanny Transactions and Canny Forms: Rosamund Marriott Watson's Märchen
Chapter Five: Parodic Myth: Unveiling Allegory and the Domestication of Myth in an Early Victorian Lyric
Parodic Myth
Mary Tighe's Psyche and the Uses of Allegory
"[A]ll confused and tangled with the flotsam and jetsam of earlier ages": Mrs Bell and the Domestication of Myth
Chapter Six: "And ho, so very still she stands": Rosamund Marriott Watson's Pygmalion and the Art of the House
"Golden wings about my bed": the Poetics of Domestic Space
"You can make what you will of the house you live in": Re-fashioning the Connoisseur
The Genre of the Chamber
"The White Lady": Pygmalion in the Feminine, Niobe Recast
Chapter Seven: Monsters and Doubles
The Monster and the Body Politic
The Were-Wolf and Jack the Ripper: the Monster and/as History in Rosamund Marriott Watson's "A Ballad of the Were-Wolf"
Romantic Displacements and Victorian Spaces: "Goblin Market" as Phantasmagoria
Chapter Eight: "Witches' Play"
The Poetics of Extreme States
The Metamorphic Lyric Voice in "Medea in Athens"
"Should I be so your lover as I am?": the Woman in the Mirror in "Circe"
Changing the Status of the Supernatural: Folklore and Psychology
"'Tis the lie for which she will burn": A. Mary F. Robinson's "The Wise-Woman"
Centaurs and Roadsters: Double Consciousness and Unconscious Cerebration in Emily Pfeiffer's "The Witch's Last Ride"
"I am she!": Mary Coleridge's "The Witch" and the Parodic Love Lyric
Bibliography
Index
About the Author