madness becomes a hermeneutic tool that continues liberalism's violent forgetting. I trace the work that

conspicuously left out. The intention of effecting social change complicates and shapes the autobiographical in

anxieties about industrialization. Recent work on nineteenth-century American poetry has demonstrated verse

-working women, these women professionals had to frame their work as unthreatening to heteronormative patriarchal

literary work is also constantly reinventing itself through its encounters with other visual, aural, and

personhood and social advancement in America following Emancipation. The film gave rise to a body of work