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1027930
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b782300
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The Culture of sentiment : : race, gender, and sentimentality in nineteenth-century America /\ edited by Shirley Samuels.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Oxford University Press,, 1992.
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1 online resource (viii, 349 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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1423764285
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: 160129767X
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: 6610524823
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: 9781423764281
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: 9781601297679
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: 9786610524822
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0195063546
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9780195063547
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-340) and index.
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| Contents
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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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| Abstract
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This collection of critical essays endeavours to give fuller body and scope to the subject of 19th-century American sentimentality by examining it in light of the so-called "women's culture" and the issue of race.
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African Americans in literature.
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American literature-- Women authors-- History and criticism.
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American literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
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Feminism and literature-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
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Popular culture-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
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Race in literature.
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Sentimentalism in literature.
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Sex role in literature.
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Slavery in literature.
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Women and literature-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
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African Americans in literature.
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American literature-- Women authors.
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American literature.
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Feminism and literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.
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Popular culture.
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Race in literature.
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Sentimentalism in literature.
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Sex role in literature.
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Slavery in literature.
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Women and literature.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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810.9/003
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| LC Classification
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PS217.S55C85 1992eb
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| Added Entry
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Samuels, Shirley.
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