Reviews for Family, Kinship, and Sympathy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

The average rating for Family, Kinship, and Sympathy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2007-10-19 00:00:00 Althea Jones so, you're probably not going to just up and go read a book about sentimental literature. but if you were going to read a book about sentimental literature, it should probably be this one.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-04-26 00:00:00 Chris Mueller Carby's recovery work on Afro-American women authors is phenomenal and traces the role that authors like Harriet Wilson, Frances Harper, and Pauline Hopkins played in shaping a distinctive tradition of American literature that has been historically underrepresented. My only critique of Carby's work is that it lacks any form of conclusion. This may be intentional as there is more to this tradition begin what Carby describes, but the abruptness of the ending makes me long to know what lies in the empty space beyond Reconstructing Womanhood.