Table of Contents:
  • From Emerson to Whitman : engendering the sublime
  • Another way to see : Dickenson and the counter-sublime
  • Dickinson, Moore, and the poetics of deflection
  • Marianne Moore : toward an engendered sublime
  • The "piercing, melting word" : Moore's "Octopus"
  • Bishop's sexual poetics
  • Plath's bodily ego : restaging the sublime
  • "Of woman born" : Adrienne Rich and the feminist sublime.