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The Culture of sentiment : race, gender, and sentimentality in nineteenth-century America /
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
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1992.
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| Colección: | OUP E-Books.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.