Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Separate spheres, female worlds, woman's place : the rhetoric of women's history / Linda K. Kerber
  • "My sister! My sister!" : the rhetoric of Catharine Sedgwick's Hope Leslie / Judith Fetterley
  • Herman Melville, wife beating, and the written page / Elizabeth Renker
  • Contradictory impulses : María Ampara Ruiz de Burton, resistance theory, and the politics of Chicano/a studies / José F. Aranda Jr.
  • Sex, class, and "category crisis" : reading Jewett's transitivity / Marjorie Pryse
  • Manifest domesticity / Amy Kaplan
  • Passing through the closet in Pauline E. Hopkins's Contending Forces / Siobhan Somerville
  • Constructing the black masculine : Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and the sublimits of African American autobiography / Maurice Wallace
  • Native daughters in the promised land : gender, race, and the question of separate spheres / You-me Park and Gayle Wald
  • Poor Eliza / Lauren Berlant
  • Representative/democracy : presidents, democratic management, and the unfinished business of male sentimentalism / Dana D. Nelson
  • Fathers, sons, sentimentality, and the color line : the not-quite-separate spheres of W.E.B. Du Bois and Ralph Waldo Emerson / Ryan Schneider
  • "Few of our seeds ever come up at all" : a dialogue on Hawthorne, Delany, and the work of affect in visionary utopias / Christopher Newfield and Melissa Solomon.