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The lyrical voices in Billone's The Light Changes evoke and embody vibrant layers of radical tenderness and courage that are rarely achieved in contemporary poetry." ~Olaf Berwald

In Little Songs: Women, Silence, and the Nineteenth-Century Sonnet, Amy Christine Billone analyzes the bond between lyric poetry and silence in women's sonnets ranging from the late eighteenth-century works of Charlotte Smith, Helen Maria Williams, and Anna Maria Smallpiece to Victorian texts by Elizabeth Barrett, Christina Rossetti, Isabella Southern, and other, lesser-known female poets. Although scholars acknowledge that women initiated the...

“, Billone’, s book redefines the sonnet as a vital part of women’, s literary history.”, —, Scott Lewis, editor of "The Brownings’, Correspondence

This book investigates the reappearance of the 19th-century dream-child from the Golden Age of Children¿s Literature, both in the Harry Potter series and in other current popular works. Discussing Harry Potter as a reincarnation of Carroll¿s Alice and Barrie¿s Peter Pan, it then examines revisions of the dream-child in texts and films that have inspired mass fandom in the 21st century such as Twilight, 50 Shades of Grey and The Hunger Games. I...