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Front Cover: Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Trochilus Colubris. From John James Audubon’s The Birds of America, Plate 47: 1828. www.audubon.org/birds-of-america. Accessed 29 August 2018. High-resolution images courtesy of the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove, PA, and the Montgomery County, PA Audubon Collection.

ESQ: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture

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Editors’ Preface
Faith Barrett, Páraic Finnerty, Elizabeth Petrino
pp. 211-213
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/esq.2018.0006

Bennett’s Dickinsons
Páraic Finnerty
pp. 214-233
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/esq.2018.0007

Bennett’s Archive I: Lydia Sigourney
Elizabeth Petrino
pp. 234-250
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/esq.2018.0008

Bennett’s Archive II: Sarah Piatt
Faith Barrett
pp. 251-263
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/esq.2018.0009

“Gorgeous Crime”: The Art of Violence in Women’s Civil War Poetry
Eliza Richards
pp. 264-299
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/esq.2018.0010

Mimicry, Originality, and Sarah Piatt’s Ekphrastic Failures
Christa Holm Vogelius
pp. 300-333
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/esq.2018.0011

The Living Child’s Place in Piatt’s Dead Child Poems
Jess Roberts
pp. 334-367
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/esq.2018.0012

Sarah Piatt’s Realism in 1870s Print Culture
Elizabeth Renker
pp. 368-396
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/esq.2018.0013

Contributors
pp. 398-399
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/esq.2018.0014

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