Table of Contents: “…'Recovering the path of virtue': the politics of prostitution and the sentimental novel -- 6. 'The dangerous tendency of novels' and the controversy of sentimentalism.…”

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Table of Contents: “…Making a Thing into a Man: The Sentimental Novel and Slavery --…”
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Table of Contents: “…Between England and America: Captivity, Sympathy, and the Sentimental Novel --…”

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Table of Contents: “…Passing and the sentimental novel -- Passing and the rise of realism -- Passing and the fictional autobiography -- Passing and the "fast yellowing manuscripts" -- Passing and the rise of mass culture -- Reading passing through a different lens.…”

Table of Contents: “…The novel's audience and the sentimental love religion ; Richardson and the tragedy of seduction ; The bourgeois sentimental novel and the female audience ; The beginnings of the anti-bourgeois sentimental novel in America ; Charles Brockden Brown and the invention of the American gothic ; James Fenimore Cooper and the historical romance -- Development and frustration. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Subtle sophistries of desire: The female Quixote -- Inventing good stories -- Of plots and power: Richardson and Fielding -- The ideal woman and the plot of power -- The sentimental novel and the challenge to power -- Fathers and daughters: Ann Radcliffe -- Energies of mind: novels of the 1790s -- "The novel's wisdom": Austen and Scott.…”

Table of Contents: “…: Rachilde, gender and the male body -- The right to pleasure : sex and the sentimental novel.…”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : natal nationalism ; the place of the child in American cultural studies -- The child and the racial politics of nation making in the slavery era -- Southern fictions and the "race" of nations along the Mexican border -- Consenting fictions, fictions of consent : the child and the nineteenth-century sentimental novel -- Transnational Twain -- Henry James, Pauline Hopkins, and psychologies of race -- Raceless states: W.E.B. …”

Table of Contents: “…In loco parentis -- "A sort of adopted daughter": family relations in The lamplighter -- Thinking through sympathy: Kemble, Hentz, and Stowe -- Behind the scenes of sentimental novels: Ida Mae and Twelve years a slave -- Love American style: The wide, wide world -- We are family, or Melville's Pierre.…”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : natal nationalism ; the place of the child in American cultural studies -- The child and the racial politics of nation making in the slavery era -- Southern fictions and the "race" of nations along the Mexican border -- Consenting fictions, fictions of consent : the child and the nineteenth-century sentimental novel -- Transnational Twain -- Henry James, Pauline Hopkins, and psychologies of race -- Raceless states: W.E.B. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Smith -- Captivity and the literary imagination / Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola -- Nineteenth-century American women's poetry / Elizabeth Petrino -- Women at war / Shirley Samuels -- Women, anti-catholicism, and narrative in nineteenth-century America / Susan Griffin -- Immigration and assimilation in nineteenth-century US women's writing / Priscilla Wald -- The uses of writing in Margaret Bayard Smith's new nation / Fredrika J. Teute -- The sentimental novel : the example of Harriet Beecher Stowe / Gail K. …”
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Table of Contents: “…After Robert Southey, by George Canning and John Hookham Frere. The sentimental novel, by Jane Austen -- pt. 2. The nineteenth century. …”