The culture of sentiment : race, gender, and sentimentality in nineteenth-century America

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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