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The Culture of sentiment : race, gender, and sentimentality in nineteenth-century America / edited by Shirley Samuels.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Slavery in literature.
- Feminism and literature--United States--History--19th century.
- Feminism and literature.
- Women and literature--United States--History--19th century.
- Women and literature.
- American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
- Popular culture--United States--History--19th century.
- Popular culture.
- African Americans in literature.
- Sentimentalism in literature.
- Sex role in literature.
- Race in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (358 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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 Gambling9. 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; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M
- NO; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 1992.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-340) and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-772364-0
- 1-280-52482-0
- 1-4237-6428-5
- 0-19-536252-7
- 1-60129-767-X
- OCLC:
- 191038099
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