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245 04 a| The Culture of sentiment :b| race, gender, and sentimentality in nineteenth-century America /c| edited by Shirley Samuels.;

300 a| viii, 349 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 25 cm;

336 a| text2| rdacontent;

337 a| unmediated2| rdamedia;

338 a| volume2| rdacarrier;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-340) and index.;

505 0 a| 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.;

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650 0 a| Slavery in literature.=| ^A360547;

650 0 a| American literaturex| Women authorsx| History and criticism.=| ^A50832;

650 0 a| Sentimentalism in literature.=| ^A64706;

650 0 a| African Americans in literature.=| ^A49990;

650 0 a| Sex role in literature.=| ^A108205;

650 0 a| Race in literature.=| ^A235583;

700 1 a| Samuels, Shirley.=| ^A303624;

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The Culture of sentiment : race, gender, and sentimentality in nineteenth-century America / edited by Shirley Samuels.

Other author	Samuels, Shirley.
Format	Book
Publication Info	New York : Oxford University Press, ©1992.
Description	viii, 349 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects	American literature--19th century. --History and criticism. Slavery in literature. Feminism and literature--United States. --History. --19th century. Women and literature--United States. --History. --19th century. American literature--Women authors. --History and criticism. Popular culture--United States. --History. --19th century. Sentimentalism in literature. African Americans in literature. Sex role in literature. Race in literature.

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.
Local note	Little-296382--305131002864X
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-340) and index.
LCCN	91044238
ISBN	0195063546 (acid-free paper)

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