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Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Lanham, Md. : Co-published with The Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, Inc., 2013

1 online resource (x, 232 p.) : ill

ISBN 9781611476064 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9781611476057 (cloth : alk. paper)

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction / Mary De Jong -- Rethinking Sentimental Motherhood. "These Human Flowers": Sentimentalizing Children and Fashioning Maternal Authority in Godey’s Lady’s Book / Kara Clevinger -- "The Medicine of Sympathy": Maternal Affective Pedagogy in Antebellum America / Ken Parille -- The Ethics of Postbellum Melancholy in the Poetry of Sarah Piatt / D. Zachary Finch -- The Politics of Sentimentality. "The Language of the Eye": Communication and Sentimental Benevolence in Lydia Sigourney’s Poems and Essays about the Deaf / Elizabeth Petrino -- Lydia Maria Child’s Use of Sentimentalism in Letters from New-York / Susan Toth Lord -- Sympathetic Jo: Tomboyism, Poverty, and Race in Alcott’s Little Women / Kristen Proehl -- Loss, Death, Mourning and Grief. Desired and Imagined Loss as Sympathetic Identification: Bachelor Melancholia in Donald Grant Mitchell’s Reveries of a Bachelor / Maglina Lubovich -- The Collaborative Construction of a Death-Defying Cryptext: Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass / Adam Bradford -- "Such Verses for My Body Let Us Write": Civil War Song, Sentimentalism, and Whitman’s Drum-Taps / Robert Arbour -- Psychological Sentimentalism: Consciousness, Affect, and the Sentimental Henry James / George Gordon-Smith -- Afterword / Mary Louise Kete.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries

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