Table of Contents:
  • Verbal magic: an etymology of female enthusiasm
  • The second coming of Hester Lynch Piozzi
  • I, being the representative of liberty: Helen Maria Williams and the utopian performative
  • The passion of the gothic heroine: Ann Radcliffe and the origins of narrative
  • Anna Barbauld as enlightenment prophet
  • Prophesying tragedy: Mary Shelley and the end of Romanticism.