The Culture of Sentiment
Race, Gender, and Sentimentality in 19th-Century America
1st Edition
Published on 17. December 1992
358 pages
978-0-19-536252-7 (ISBN)
Description
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. Moving beyond alignment with either pro- or anti-sentimentality camps, the collection makes visible the particular racial and gendered forms that define the aesthetics and politics of the culture of sentiment. Drawing on the fields of American cultural history, American studies, and literary criticism, the contributors include Lauren Berlant, Ann Fabian, Susan Gillman, Karen Halttunen, Carolyn L. Karcher, Joy Kasson, Amy Schrager Lang, Isabelle Lehuu, Harryette Mullen, Dana Nelson, Lora Romero, Shirley Samuels, Karen Sanchez-Eppler, Lynn Wardley, and Laura Wexler.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Academic/professional/technical: Undergraduate. Academic/professional/technical: Postgraduate. Academic/professional/technical: Research and professional
Illustrations
14 illus.
File size
28,66 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-19-536252-7 (9780195362527)
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Shirley Samuels
The Culture of Sentiment
Race, Gender, and Sentimentality in Nineteenth Century America
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Tender Violence: Literary Eavesdropping, Domestic Fiction, and Educational Reform
- 2. "Domestic Differences": Competing Narratives of Womanhood in the Murder Trial of Lucretia Chapman
- 3. Rape, Murder, and Revenge in "Slavery's Pleasant Homes": Lydia Maria Child's Antislavery Fiction and the Limits of Genre
- 4. Sentimental Figures: Reading Godey's Lady's Book in Antebellum America
- 5. Bodily Bonds: The Intersecting Rhetorics of Feminism and Abolition
- 6. Vanishing Americans: Gender, Empire, and New Historicism
- 7. Class and the Strategies of Sympathy
- 8. Unseemly Sentiments: The Cultural Problem of Gambling
- 9. The Identity of Slavery
- 10. Narratives of the Female Body: The Greek Slave
- 11. Sympathy as Strategy in Sedgwick's Hope Leslie
- 12. Relic, Fetish, Femmage: The Aesthetics of Sentiment in the Work of Stowe
- 13. The Mulatto, Tragic or Triumphant? The Nineteenth-Century American Race Melodrama
- 14. Runaway Tongue: Resistant Orality in Uncle Tom's Cabin, Our Nig, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, and Beloved
- 15. The Female Woman: Fanny Fern and the Form of Sentiment
- Notes
- Contributors
- Index
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