Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chronology
Amy Lowell and Cultural Borders
Family Matters: Genealogies and Intertexts in Amy Lowell's "The Sisters"
Amy Lowell and the Unknown Ladies: The Caryatides Talk Back
A Transatlantic Affair: Amy Lowell and Bryher
"Which, Being Interpreted, Is as May Be, or Otherwise": Ada Dwyer Russell in Amy Lowell's Life and Work
Lesbian Chivalry in Amy Lowell's Sword Blades and Poppy Seed
Amy Lowell, John Keats, and the "Shielded Scutcheon" of Imagist Art
Unrelated Beauty: Amy Lowell, Polyphonic Prose, and the Imagist City
Putting on the Voice of the Orient: Gender and Sexuality in Amy Lowell's "Asian" Poetry
Amy Lowell's Letters in the Network of Modernism 
Amy Lowell, Some Imagist Poets, and the Context of the New Poetry
Remembering Amy Lowell: Embodiment, Obesity, and the Construction of a Persona
Afterword: Amy Lowell: Body and Sou-ell
Notes on Contributors
General Index
Index of Lowell's Works

About the Author

ADRIENNE MUNICH is a professor of English at SUNYStony Brook. Among her books are Remaking Queen Victoria, Queen Victorias Secrets, Andromeda's Chains: Gender and Interpretation in Victorian Literature and Art, and Arms and the Woman: War, Gender, and Literary Representation. 

MELISSA BRADSHAW is an assistant professor of humanities at Barat College of DePaul University. She is the co-editor with Adrienne Munich of Selected Poems of Amy Lowell.

Reviews

"More that a century after Lowell's birth, we can hear her making poetry new. Her spirit lives in these essays."

"This very strong collection of essays will do a great deal to make readers turn again to Amy Lowell."