Table of Contents:
  • "Single white female": the sexual politics of spinsterhood in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Oldtown folks
  • "Trying all kinds": Louisa May Alcott's pedagogic erotics
  • "Scouting for girls": reading and recruitment in the early twentieth century
  • "Excreate a no sense": the erotic currency of Gertrude Stein's Tender buttons
  • The M multiplying: Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop and the pleasure of influence, part I
  • Influence and invitation: Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and the pleasures of influence, part 2.