Contents

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