Introduction: Crossing can(n)on street / Ellen Weinauer and Robert McClure Smith
Biographical foreword: Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard (1823-1902) / Sandra A. Zagarell
"Among a crowd, I find myself alone": Elizabeth Stoddard and the canon of nineteenth-century American women's poetry / Robert McClure Smith
Elizabeth Stoddard as returned Californian: a reading of the Daily Alta California columns / Margaret A. Amstutz
Haunting the house of print: the circulation of disembodied texts in "Collected by a valetudinarian" and "Miss grief" / Paul Crumbley
"I am cruel hungry": dramas of twisted appetite and rejected identification in Elizabeth Stoddard's The Morgesons / Julia Stern
"Perversions of volition": self-starvation and self-possession in Dickinson and Stoddard / Susanna Ryan
Home coming and home leaving: interrogations of domesticity in Elizabeth Stoddard's Harper's fiction, 1859-1891 / Jaime Osterman Alves
The "American sphinx" and the riddle of national identity in Elizabeth Stoddard's Two men / Jennifer Putzi
(Un)natural attractions? incest and miscegenation in Two men / Lisa Radinovsky
Reconstructing Temple house / Ellen Weinauer
Afterword: Will Stoddard endure? / Lawrence Buell.
