Sentimentalism in Nineteenth-Century America
Subtitle: Literary and Cultural Practices
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Madison, NJ
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781611476057
Table of contents: title: Introduction, Mary De Jong; title: Part One: Rethinking Sentimental Motherhood; title: “These Human Flowers”: Sentimentalizing Children and Fashioning Maternal Authority in Godey’s Lady’s Book, Kara Clevinger; title: “The Medicine of Sympathy”: Maternal Affective Pedagogy in Antebellum America,” Ken Parille; title: The Ethics of Postbellum Melancholy in the Poetry of Sarah Piatt, D. Zachary Finch; title: Part Two: The Politics of Sentimentality; title: “The Language of the Eye”: Communication and Sentimental Benevolence in Lydia Sigourney’s Poems and Essays about the Deaf, Elizabeth Petrino; title: Lydia Maria Child’s Use of Sentimentalism in Letters from New-York, Susan Toth Lord; title: Sympathetic Jo: Tomboyism, Poverty, and Race in Alcott’s Little Women, Kristen Proehl; title: Part Three: Loss, Death, Mourning and Grief; title: Desired and Imagined Loss as Sympathetic Identification: Bachelor Melancholia in Donald Grant Mitchell’s Reveries of a Bachelor, Maglina Lubovich; title: The Collaborative Construction of a Death-Defying Cryptext: Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, Adam Bradford; title: “Such Verses for My Body Let Us Write”: Civil War Song, Sentimentalism, and Whitman’s Drum-Taps, Robert Arbour; title: Psychological Sentimentalism: Consciousness, Affect, and the Sentimental Henry James, George Gordon-Smith; title: Afterword, Mary Louise Kete; title: Works Cited; title: Contributors