| Description |
ix, 288 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Fireside chastity: the erotics of sentimental bachelorhood in the 1850s / Vincent J. Bertolini -- Feeling for the fireside: Longfellow, Lynch, and the topography of poetic power / Kirsten Silva Gruesz -- Then when we clutch hardest: on the death of a child and the replication of an image / Karen Sánchez-Eppler -- The black body erotic and the republican body politic, 1790-1820 / John Saillant -- Remembering metacom: historical writing and the cultures of masculinity in early republican America / Philip Gould -- Bloated bodies and sober sentiments: masculinity in 1840s temperance narratives / Glenn Hendler -- Sentimental abolition in Douglass's decade: revision, erotic conversion, and the politics of witnessing in The heroic slave and My bondage and my freedom / P. Gabrielle Foreman -- Chivalric sentimentalism: the case of Dr. Howe and Laura Bridgman / Cassandra Cleghorn -- The gaze of success: failed men and the sentimental marketplace, 1873-1893 / Scott A. Sandage -- Masochism and male sentimentalism: Charles Brockden Brown's Clara Howard / Bruce Burgett -- Sentimental and romantic masculinities in Moby-Dick and Pierre / Tara Penry -- Sentimental realism in Thomas Eakins's late portraits / Martin A. Berger -- Sentimental tentacles: Frank Norris's The octopus / Francesca Sawaya. |
| Subject |
American literature -- Male authors -- History and criticism.
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Men -- United States -- Intellectual life.
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Men -- United States -- Psychology.
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Sentimentalism in literature.
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Masculinity in literature.
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Sex role in literature.
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Emotions in literature.
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Men in literature.
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Masculinity -- United States.
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Sentimentalism -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Chapman, Mary, 1962-
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Hendler, Glenn, 1962-
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| ISBN |
0520216210 alkaline paper |
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9780520216211 alkaline paper |
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0520216229 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780520216228 paperback alkaline paper |
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