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‘‘My Sister! My Sister!’’: The Rhetoric of Catharine Sedgwick’s Hope Leslie

  • Judith Fetterley
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No More Separate Spheres!
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© 2020 Duke University Press, Durham, USA

© 2020 Duke University Press, Durham, USA

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Preface 1
  4. Introduction 7
  5. PART 1: CANONS
  6. Separate Spheres, FemaleWorlds, Woman’s Place: The Rhetoric of Women’s History 29
  7. ‘‘My Sister! My Sister!’’: The Rhetoric of Catharine Sedgwick’s Hope Leslie 67
  8. Herman Melville, Wife Beating, and theWritten Page 93
  9. Contradictory Impulses: María Ampara Ruiz de Burton, Resistance Theory, and the Politics of Chicano/a Studies 121
  10. Sex, Class, and ‘‘Category Crisis’’: Reading Jewett’s Transitivity 149
  11. PART 2: DOMESTICITY UNDONE: CASE STUDIES
  12. Manifest Domesticity 183
  13. Passing through the Closet in Pauline E. Hopkins’s Contending Forces 209
  14. Constructing the Black Masculine: Frederick Douglass, Booker T.Washington, and the Sublimits of African American Autobiography 237
  15. Native Daughters in the Promised Land: Gender, Race, and the Question of Separate Spheres 263
  16. PART 3: PUBLIC SENTIMENT
  17. Poor Eliza 291
  18. Representative/Democracy: Presidents, Democratic Management, and the Unfinished Business of Male Sentimentalism 325
  19. Fathers, Sons, Sentimentality, and the Color Line: The Not-Quite-Separate Spheres of W. E. B. Du Bois and RalphWaldo Emerson 355
  20. ‘‘Few of Our Seeds Ever Came Up at All’’: A Dialogue on Hawthorne, Delany, and theWork of Affect in Visionary Utopias 377
  21. Selected Bibliography 409
  22. Contributors 423
  23. Index 427
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822383437-004

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Preface 1
  4. Introduction 7
  5. PART 1: CANONS
  6. Separate Spheres, FemaleWorlds, Woman’s Place: The Rhetoric of Women’s History 29
  7. ‘‘My Sister! My Sister!’’: The Rhetoric of Catharine Sedgwick’s Hope Leslie 67
  8. Herman Melville, Wife Beating, and theWritten Page 93
  9. Contradictory Impulses: María Ampara Ruiz de Burton, Resistance Theory, and the Politics of Chicano/a Studies 121
  10. Sex, Class, and ‘‘Category Crisis’’: Reading Jewett’s Transitivity 149
  11. PART 2: DOMESTICITY UNDONE: CASE STUDIES
  12. Manifest Domesticity 183
  13. Passing through the Closet in Pauline E. Hopkins’s Contending Forces 209
  14. Constructing the Black Masculine: Frederick Douglass, Booker T.Washington, and the Sublimits of African American Autobiography 237
  15. Native Daughters in the Promised Land: Gender, Race, and the Question of Separate Spheres 263
  16. PART 3: PUBLIC SENTIMENT
  17. Poor Eliza 291
  18. Representative/Democracy: Presidents, Democratic Management, and the Unfinished Business of Male Sentimentalism 325
  19. Fathers, Sons, Sentimentality, and the Color Line: The Not-Quite-Separate Spheres of W. E. B. Du Bois and RalphWaldo Emerson 355
  20. ‘‘Few of Our Seeds Ever Came Up at All’’: A Dialogue on Hawthorne, Delany, and theWork of Affect in Visionary Utopias 377
  21. Selected Bibliography 409
  22. Contributors 423
  23. Index 427
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