Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. INTRODUCTION: The Forms of Cultured Feeling 1
5. 1 Embodying Gender: Sentimental Materialism in the New Republic 29
6. 2 Gender, Domesticity, and Consumption in the 1830s: Caroline Kirkland, Catharine Sedgwick, and the Feminization of American Consumerism 88
7. 3 Sentimental Consumption: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Aesthetics of Middle-Class Ownership 135
8. 4 Domesticating "Blackness": Harriet Jacobs, Sojourner Truth, and the Decommodification of the Black Female Body 191
9. 5 Fashioning a Free Self: Consumption, Politics, and Power in the Writings of Elizabeth Keckley and Frances Harper 229
10. 6 Not "Just a Cigar": Commodity Culture and the Construction of Imperial Manhood 270
11. Conclusion 304
12. Notes 315
13. Works Cited 365
14. Index 383