4. The Black Body Erotic and the Republican Body Politic, 1790–1820

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. List of Illustrations VII
4. Acknowledgments IX
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I: Domestic Men
7. 1. Fireside Chastity 19
8. 2. Feeling for the Fireside 43
9. 3. Then When We Clutch Hardest 64
10. Part II: Public Sentiment
11. 4. The Black Body Erotic and the Republican Body Politic, 1790–1820 89
12. 5. Remembering Metacom 112
13. 6. Bloated Bodies and Sober Sentiments 125
14. 7. Sentimental Abolition in Douglass's Decade 149
15. 8. Chivalric Sentimentalism 163
16. 9. The Gaze of Success 181
17. Part III: Canonical Sentiments
18. 10. Masochism and Male Sentimentalism 205
19. 11. Sentimental and Romantic Masculinities in Moby-Dick and Pierre 226
20. 12. Sentimental Realism in Thomas Eakins's Late Portraits 244
21. 13. Sentimental Tentacles 259
22. Notes on Contributors 273
23. Index 277