| Description |
viii, 349 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 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 Sanchez-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.
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Slavery in literature.
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Feminism and literature -- History -- 19th century.
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Women and literature -- History -- 19th century.
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American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Popular culture -- History -- 19th century.
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Sentimentalism in literature.
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African Americans in literature.
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Sex role in literature.
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Race in literature.
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| Added Author |
Samuels, Shirley.
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| ISBN |
0195063546 (acid-free paper) |
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