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Title The Culture of sentiment : race, gender, and sentimentality in nineteenth-century America / edited by Shirley Samuels.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.

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 Moore Stacks  PS217.S55 C85 1992    Available  ---
Description viii, 349 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 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 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.
Subject American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
American literature.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Slavery in literature.
Slavery in literature.
Feminism and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Feminism and literature.
United States.
History.
Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Women and literature.
American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
American literature -- Women authors.
Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Popular culture.
Sentimentalism in literature.
Sentimentalism in literature.
African Americans in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Race in literature.
Race in literature.
Indexed Term English literature History, 1830-1900
United States
Added Author Samuels, Shirley.
ISBN 0195063546 acid-free paper