The Culture of sentiment

Shirley Samuels

earliest edition we have, 1992 Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 1992

In this important new collection, leading scholars in nineteenth-century American culture re-examine the vexed subject of sentimentality. These essays draw upon a range of interdisciplinary approaches to situate sentimentality in terms of "women's culture" and issues of race, before and after the Civil War. Moving beyond the canonical debates about sentimentality, the collection makes visible the particular racial an...

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The Culture of sentiment edition · 1992 · Oxford University Press · 349 pages
Culture of Sentiment edition · 1992 · Oxford University Press · 9781280524820
Culture of Sentiment edition · 1992 · Oxford University Press, Incorporated · 9780195362527

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