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edited by Shirley SamuelsPublication Details
BookOxford University Press1992Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS217.S55 C85 1992 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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Samuels’s collection of critical essays gives body and scope to the subject of nineteenth-century sentimentality by situating it in terms of “women’s culture” and issues of race. Presenting an interdisciplinary range of approaches that consider sentimental culture before and after the Civil War, these critical studies of American literature and culture fundamentally reorient the field. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)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
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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 Sánchez-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
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- 0195063546
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