Through the examination of a range of canonical and non-canonical authors--including Blake, Shelley, Cooper, Linton, Landor, Meredith, Thomson and Swinburne--Kuduk Weiner connects the formal strategies of republican poems to the political theory and expressive cultures of republican radicalism.

Preface * Introduction * Women of Great Wit: Designing Women in Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia * "Free Gift Was What He Wished": Neogitating Desire in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania * Stratagems and Seeming Constraints (Or How to Avoid Being a Grey-hound's Collar): Markham, Weamys, and Barclay * A Scheme of Virtuous Politics: Governing the Self in Cavendish's "Assaulted and Pursured Chastity," Behn's The History of the Nun, Barker's Love Intrigues, and Haywood's Love in Excess * Poor in Everything But Will: Devices and Desire in Samuel Richardson's Pamela * Turret Love and Cottage Hate: Coming Down to Earth in Pamela 2, and Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote * "It Was Happy She Took a Good Course": Saving Elizabeth Bennett in Pride and Prejudice * Agitating Risk and Romantic Chance: Going All the Way with Jane Eyre? * Bibliography * Index