Table of Contents

Gendering the canons of Romanticism - past and present; re/writing home - women Romantic writers and the politics of location; dialect, gender and the politics of the local - the writing of Ann Wheeler; the father's seduction in Mary Shelley's "Mathilda"; reading "Tintern Abbey" - towards a politics of cultural production; the pen and sword - Felia Hemans's records of man; Jack the Ripper, Sherlock Holmes and the New Woman