The postcolonial culture of early American women's writing / Rosemarie Zagarri -- Women in public / Dana D. Nelson -- Antebellum politics and women's writing / Stephanie A. Smith -- Captivity and the literary imagination / Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola -- Nineteenth-century American women's poetry / Elizabeth Petrino -- Women at war / Shirley Samuels -- Women, anti-catholicism, and narrative in nineteenth-century America / Susan Griffin -- Immigration and assimilation in nineteenth-century US women's writing / Priscilla Wald -- The uses of writing in Margaret Bayard Smith's new nation / Fredrika J. Teute -- The sentimental novel : the example of Harriet Beecher Stowe / Gail K. Smith -- African-American women's spiritual narratives / Yolanda Pierce -- The postbellum reform writings of Rebecca Harding Davis and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps / Lisa A. Long -- "Strenuous artistry" : Elizabeth Stoddard's The Morgesons / Sandra A. Zagarell -- Minnie's Sacrifice : Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's narrative of citizenship / Farah Jasmine Griffin.