| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 349 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| 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. |
| Summary |
This collection of critical essays endeavours to give fuller body and scope to the subject of 19th-century American sentimentality by examining it in light of the so-called "women's culture" and the issue of race. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Slavery in literature.
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Slavery in literature. |
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Feminism and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Feminism and literature. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Women and literature. |
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American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- Women authors. |
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Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Popular culture. |
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African Americans in literature.
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African Americans in literature. |
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Sentimentalism in literature.
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Sentimentalism in literature. |
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Sex role in literature.
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Sex role in literature. |
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Race in literature.
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Race in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1800 - 1899 |
| Indexed Term |
English literature History, 1830-1900 |
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United States |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Samuels, Shirley.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Culture of sentiment. New York : Oxford University Press, 1992 0195063546 (DLC) 91044238 (OCoLC)25026439 |
| ISBN |
1423764285 (electronic book) |
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9781423764281 (electronic book) |
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160129767X |
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9781601297679 |
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0195063546 (Cloth) |
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9780195063547 |
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