Appendix 1. Contents and Characters of TheWhole Family

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. ‘‘A Strangely Exciting Story’’ How It Began / Authorship and Collaboration / Scenes of Reading and Writing 13
7. 2. The Hearthstone at Harper’s Harper’s and Antebellum Print Culture: A House Undivided / Harper’s and Postbellum Print Culture: ‘‘A Climb up the Spiral Staircase’’ / Harper’s in the New Century: ‘‘Everybody’s Busy Day’’ / A Family Performance: The Composite Novel as Vaudeville 58
8. 3. Making the FamilyWhole What Is a Family? / The Father’s Family / The Female Counter-family / Intimacy and Publicity 106
9. 4. The Sometimes-NewWoman Sex and Education / The Subtle Syncretism of MaryWilkins Freeman / The Extraordinary Miss Jordan / Female Modernity and the Magazine 158
10. 5.What Is Sentimentality? Embodied Thoughts / Feeling Right / Home Sweet Home / Feeling and Form / Sentimentality in Circulation, circa 1908 213
11. 6. Closing the Book Culture and Commerce / Perfect Felicity (with Professional Help) 257
12. Appendix 1. Contents and Characters of TheWhole Family 283
13. Appendix 2. The Generations of the ‘‘Family’’ 284
14. Notes 285
15. References 305
16. Index 331