Sentimentalism in nineteenth-century America : literary and cultural practices / / edited by Mary G. De Jong, with Paula Bernat Bennett.
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| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | x, 232 p. :; ill. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Mary De Jong
- Rethinking Sentimental Motherhood. "These Human Flowers": Sentimentalizing Children and Fashioning Maternal Authority in Godey's Lady's Book / Kara Clevinger
- "The Medicine of Sympathy": Maternal Affective Pedagogy in Antebellum America / Ken Parille
- The Ethics of Postbellum Melancholy in the Poetry of Sarah Piatt / D. Zachary Finch
- The Politics of Sentimentality. "The Language of the Eye": Communication and Sentimental Benevolence in Lydia Sigourney's Poems and Essays about the Deaf / Elizabeth Petrino
- Lydia Maria Child's Use of Sentimentalism in Letters from New-York / Susan Toth Lord
- Sympathetic Jo: Tomboyism, Poverty, and Race in Alcott's Little Women / Kristen Proehl
- Loss, Death, Mourning and Grief. Desired and Imagined Loss as Sympathetic Identification: Bachelor Melancholia in Donald Grant Mitchell's Reveries of a Bachelor / Maglina Lubovich
- The Collaborative Construction of a Death-Defying Cryptext: Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass / Adam Bradford
- "Such Verses for My Body Let Us Write": Civil War Song, Sentimentalism, and Whitman's Drum-Taps / Robert Arbour
- Psychological Sentimentalism: Consciousness, Affect, and the Sentimental Henry James / George Gordon-Smith
- Afterword / Mary Louise Kete.