| Touching Liberty |
| Acknowledgments |
| Introduction Representing the Body Politic |
| 1 Bodily Bonds The Intersecting Rhetorics of Feminism and Abolition |
| 2 To Stand Between Walt Whitman's Poetics of Merger and Embodiment |
| 3 Righting Slavery and Writing Sex The Erotics of Narration in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents |
| 4 At Home in the Body The Internal Politics of Emily Dickinson's Poetry |
| Coda Topsy-Turvy |
| Notes |
| Select Bibliography |
| Index |