Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "A Strangely Exciting Story"
  • How It Began
  • Authorship and Collaboration
  • Scenes of Reading and Writing
  • The Hearthstone at Harper's
  • Harper's and Antebellum Print Culture: A House Undivided
  • Harper's and Postbellum Print Culture: "A Climb up the Spiral Staircase"
  • Harper's in the New Century: "Everybody's Busy Day"
  • A Family Performance: The Composite Novel as Vaudeville
  • Making the Family Whole
  • What Is a Family?
  • The Father's Family
  • The Female Counter-family
  • Intimacy and Publicity
  • The Sometimes-New Woman
  • Sex and Education
  • The Subtle Syncretism of Mary Wilkins Freeman
  • The Extraordinary Miss Jordan
  • Female Modernity and the Magazine
  • What Is Sentimentality?
  • Embodied Thoughts
  • Feeling Right
  • Home Sweet Home
  • Feeling and Form
  • Sentimentality in Circulation, circa 1908
  • Closing the Book
  • Culture and Commerce
  • Perfect Felicity (with Professional Help)
  • Contents and Characters of The Whole Family
  • The Generations of the "Family."