Introduction Sources and Acknowledgments Part I. Feminist Afterlives 1. Mary Wollstonecraft's Ghosts (2002) Part II. Race, Slavery and Empire in the Nineteenth-Century Imagination 2. 'A Heterogenous Thing': Female Childhood and the Rise of Racial Thinking in Victorian Britain. (1996) 3. Imagining Empire: History, Fantasy and Literature (2006) 4. Harriet Martineau's Ethnographic Imagination (2010) 5.

'A Cavern Opened in My Mind': The Poetics of Homosexuality and the Politics of Masculinity in James Baldwin Part III. Crimes and Misdemeanours 6. Dirty Harriet/ Blue Steel : Feminist Theory Goes to Hollywood (1993) 7. Josephine Tey and Her Descendants: Conservative Modernity and the Female Crime Novel (2011) 8. Jane Austen, Modern Masculinity, and Crime (2004) 9. The Death of the Working-Class Hero (2004) Part IV. Past and Present Passions 10. Introduction: Salt and Bitter and Good: Three Centuries of English and American Women Poets (1975) [6500] Foreword (2020) 11.

Witchcraft: A Child's Story (1996) 12. The Golden Notebook and Me: A Reprise (2010).