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The Culture of sentiment : race, gender, and sentimentality in nineteenth-century America
- Title
- The Culture of sentiment : race, gender, and sentimentality in nineteenth-century America / edited by Shirley Samuels.
- Publication
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Samuels, Shirley.
- Description
- viii, 349 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Subject
- American literature > 19th century > History and criticism
- Slavery in literature
- Feminism and literature > United States > History > 19th century
- Women and literature > United States > History > 19th century
- American literature > Women authors > History and criticism
- Popular culture > United States > History > 19th century
- Sentimentalism in literature
- African Americans in literature
- Sex role in literature
- Race in literature
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-340) and index.
- Contents
- Tender violence : literary eavesdropping, domestic fiction, and educational reform / Laura Wexler -- "Domestic differences" : competing narratives of womanhood in the murder trial of Lucretia Chapman / Karen Halttunen -- Rape, murder, and revenge in "Slavery's Pleasant Homes" : Lydia Maria Child's antislavery fiction and the limits of genre / Carolyn L. Karcher -- Sentimental figures : reading Godey's Lady's Book in antebellum America / Isabelle Lehuu -- Bodily bonds : the intersecting rhetorics of feminism and abolition / Karen Sʹanchez-Eppler -- Vanishing Americans : gender, empire, and new historicism / Lora Romero -- Class and the strategies of sympathy / Amy Schrager Lang -- Unseemly sentiments : the cultural problem of gambling / Ann Fabian -- The identity of slavery / Shirley Samuels -- Narratives of the female body : The Greek Slave / Joy S. Kasson -- Sympathy as strategy in Sedgwick's Hope Leslie / Dana Nelson -- Relic, fetish, femmage : the aesthetics of sentiment in the work of Stowe / Lynn Wardley -- The Mulatto, tragic or triumphant? : the nineteenth-century American race melodrama / Susan Gillman -- Runaway tongue : resistant orality in Uncle Tom's Cabin, Our Nig, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, and Beloved / Harryette Mullen -- The female woman : Fanny Fern and the form of sentiment / Lauren Berlant.
- Call Number
- Sc E 93-285
- ISBN
- 0195063546 (acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 91044238
- OCLC
- 25026439
- NYPG93-B57090
- Title
- The Culture of sentiment : race, gender, and sentimentality in nineteenth-century America / edited by Shirley Samuels.
- Imprint
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-340) and index.
- Added Author
- Samuels, Shirley.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 93-285JFE 96-1389