The Culture of Sentiment: Race, Gender, and Sentimentality in Nineteenth-Century America

by Shirley Samuels

Samuels's collection of critical essays gives body and scope to the subject of nineteenth-century sentimentality by situating it in terms of "women's culture" and issues of race. Presenting an interdisciplinary range of approaches that consider sentimental culture before and after the Civil War, these critical studies of American literature and culture fundamentally reorient the field. Moving beyond alignment with either pro- or anti-sentimentality...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195063546
• ISBN13: 9780195063547
• Release Date: December 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"