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1 Embodying Gender: Sentimental Materialism in the New Republic
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Lori Merish
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS v
- Acknowledgments vii
- INTRODUCTION: The Forms of Cultured Feeling 1
- 1 Embodying Gender: Sentimental Materialism in the New Republic 29
- 2 Gender, Domesticity, and Consumption in the 1830s: Caroline Kirkland, Catharine Sedgwick, and the Feminization of American Consumerism 88
- 3 Sentimental Consumption: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Aesthetics of Middle-Class Ownership 135
- 4 Domesticating "Blackness": Harriet Jacobs, Sojourner Truth, and the Decommodification of the Black Female Body 191
- 5 Fashioning a Free Self: Consumption, Politics, and Power in the Writings of Elizabeth Keckley and Frances Harper 229
- 6 Not "Just a Cigar": Commodity Culture and the Construction of Imperial Manhood 270
- Conclusion 304
- Notes 315
- Works Cited 365
- Index 383
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS v
- Acknowledgments vii
- INTRODUCTION: The Forms of Cultured Feeling 1
- 1 Embodying Gender: Sentimental Materialism in the New Republic 29
- 2 Gender, Domesticity, and Consumption in the 1830s: Caroline Kirkland, Catharine Sedgwick, and the Feminization of American Consumerism 88
- 3 Sentimental Consumption: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Aesthetics of Middle-Class Ownership 135
- 4 Domesticating "Blackness": Harriet Jacobs, Sojourner Truth, and the Decommodification of the Black Female Body 191
- 5 Fashioning a Free Self: Consumption, Politics, and Power in the Writings of Elizabeth Keckley and Frances Harper 229
- 6 Not "Just a Cigar": Commodity Culture and the Construction of Imperial Manhood 270
- Conclusion 304
- Notes 315
- Works Cited 365
- Index 383
