Introduction: Highly wrought style 1. Florid fantasies: Fuller, Stephens and the 'other' language of flowers 2. Sensing the soul: mesmerism, feminism, and highly wrought writing 3. Harriet Prescott Spofford's Philosophy of Composition 4. Pauline Hopkins' Baroque Folds: the styled form of Winona 5. Coda: the value of ornament: Gilman and Wharton Endnotes Bibliography.
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