Poetry and Bondage

Introduction: The Fetters of Verse; Part I. Lyric Cells: 1. The Music of Fetters: Thomas Wyatt and the Beginnings of English Carceral Lyric; 2. The Ligature: Rob Halpern's Common Place and the Limits of Desire; 3. Each in Their Separate Hell: Solitary Confinement in the Long Nineteenth Century; 4. Hours of Lead: The Modern US Prison, Segregation and Solidarity; Part II. The Songs of Slavery: 3. Bind Me – I Still Can Sing: Emily Dickinson at the Boundaries of Lyric; 4. The Story that Cannot Be Told: M. Nourbese Philip's Zong!, from Form to Performance; 5. The Sound Came from Everywhere and Nowhere: African-American Song as Lyric Work; 6. Singing at the Window: New Criticism and the Evolution of Lyric; Part III. Pleasures and Ornaments: 9. A New Made Wound: Sadomasochistic Triumphs and Missing Feet in Ovid's Elegies; 10. The Ecstatic Lash of the Poetic Line: Swinburne, Hopkins, and the Pleasures of Bondage; 11. Soft Architecture: Lisa Robertson and Bondage as Ornament; 12. Silken Fetters: Phillis Wheatley and Ornament as Bondage.