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7. Sentimental Abolition in Douglass's Decade

Revision, Erotic Conversion, and the Politics of Witnessing in The Heroic Slave and My Bondage and My Freedom
  • P. Gabrielle Foreman
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Sentimental Men
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© 1999 University of California Press, Berkeley

© 1999 University of California Press, Berkeley

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
https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520921887-010

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
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