The Culture of Sentiment: Race, Gender, and Sentimentality in 19th-Century America Book

The Culture of Sentiment: Race, Gender, and Sentimentality in 19th-Century America, In this important new collection, leading scholars in nineteenth-century American culture re-examine the vexed subject of sentimentality. These essays draw upon a range of interdisciplinary approaches to situate sentimentality in terms of women's culture, The Culture of Sentiment: Race, Gender, and Sentimentality in 19th-Century America

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The Culture of Sentiment: Race, Gender, and Sentimentality in 19th-Century America
Written by author Shirley Samuels
Published by Oxford University Press, USA, December 1992
In this important new collection, leading scholars in nineteenth-century American culture re-examine the vexed subject of sentimentality. These essays draw upon a range of interdisciplinary approaches to situate sentimentality in terms of "women's culture
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 sentimenta

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Introduction 3
1 Tender Violence: Literary Eavesdropping, Domestic Fiction, and Educational Reform 9
2 "Domestic Differences": Competing Narratives of Womanhood in the Murder Trial of Lucretia Chapman 39
3 Rape, Murder, and Revenge in "Slavery's Pleasant Homes": Lydia Maria Child's Antislavery Fiction and the Limits of Genre 58
4 Sentimental Figures: Reading Godey's Lady's Book in Antebellum America 73
5 Bodily Bonds: The Intersecting Rhetorics of Feminism and Abolition 92
6 Vanishing Americans: Gender, Empire, and New Historicism 115
7 Class and the Strategies of Sympathy 128
8 Unseemly Sentiments: The Cultural Problem of Gambling 143
9 The Identity of Slavery 157
10 Narratives of the Female Body: The Greek Slave 172
11 Sympathy as Strategy in Sedgwick's Hope Leslie 191
12 Relic, Fetish, Femmage: The Aesthetics of Sentiment in the Work of Stowe 203
13 The Mulatto, Tragic or Triumphant? The Nineteenth-Century American Race Melodrama 221
14 Runaway Tongue: Resistant Orality in Uncle Tom's Cabin, Our Nig, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, and Beloved 244
15 The Female Woman: Fanny Fern and the Form of Sentiment 265
Notes 283
Contributors 341
Index 343

Title: The Culture of Sentiment: Race, Gender, and Sentimentality in 19th-Century America

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Publication Date: December 1992

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	Introduction	3
1	Tender Violence: Literary Eavesdropping, Domestic Fiction, and Educational Reform	9
2	"Domestic Differences": Competing Narratives of Womanhood in the Murder Trial of Lucretia Chapman	39
3	Rape, Murder, and Revenge in "Slavery's Pleasant Homes": Lydia Maria Child's Antislavery Fiction and the Limits of Genre	58
4	Sentimental Figures: Reading Godey's Lady's Book in Antebellum America	73
5	Bodily Bonds: The Intersecting Rhetorics of Feminism and Abolition	92
6	Vanishing Americans: Gender, Empire, and New Historicism	115
7	Class and the Strategies of Sympathy	128
8	Unseemly Sentiments: The Cultural Problem of Gambling	143
9	The Identity of Slavery	157
10	Narratives of the Female Body: The Greek Slave	172
11	Sympathy as Strategy in Sedgwick's Hope Leslie	191
12	Relic, Fetish, Femmage: The Aesthetics of Sentiment in the Work of Stowe	203
13	The Mulatto, Tragic or Triumphant? The Nineteenth-Century American Race Melodrama	221
14	Runaway Tongue: Resistant Orality in Uncle Tom's Cabin, Our Nig, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, and Beloved	244
15	The Female Woman: Fanny Fern and the Form of Sentiment	265
	Notes	283
	Contributors	341
	Index	343