The Culture of Sentiment: Race, Gender, and Sentimentality in..

1992. Samuels, Shirley. The Culture of Sentiment: Race, Gender, and Sentimentality in Nineteenth-Century America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. viii, 349 pp. Hardcover in lightly worn dust jacket. Price tag on back cover. $30. * Contents: 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 Sa'nchez-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.