Mary Louise Kete is Assistant Professor of English and American Literature at the University of Vermont.
Preface
Introduction: The Forgotten Language of Sentimentality
Part One:
The “Language Which May Never Be Forgot” 1.
Harriet Gould’s Book: Description and Provenance
2. “We Shore These Fragments against Our Ruin”
Part Two: Sentimental Collaborations: Mourning and the American Self
3. “And Sister Sing the Song I Love”: Circulation of the Self and Other within the Stasis of Lyric
4. The Circulation of the Dead and the Making of the Self in the Novel
Part Three: The Competition of Sentimental Nationalisms: Lydia Sigourney and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
5. The Competition of Sentimental Nationalism
6. The Other American Poets
Part Four: Mourning Sentimentality in Reconstruction-Era America: Mark Twain’s Nostalgic Realism
7. Invoking the Bonds of Affection: Tom Sawyer and America’s Morning
8. Mourning America’s Morning: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Epilogue: Converting Loss to Profit: Collaborations of Sentiment and Speculation
Appendix 1: Harriet Gould’s Book
Appendix 2: Addenda to Harriet Gould’s Book
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
Paper ISBN: 978-0-8223-2471-3
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Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-2435-5