Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Contributors ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. What Feels an American? 23
7. 2. Loving with a Vengeance: Wieland, Familicide and the Crisis of Masculinity in the Early Nation 44
8. 3. “The Manliest Relations to Men” 64
9. 4. Manly Tears 88
10. 5. How To Be a (Sentimental) Race Man 106
11. 6. The Law of the Heart 124
12. 7. “The Sort of Thing You Should Not Admit” 141
13. 8. Road Work 167
14. 9. Men’s Tears and the Roles of Melodrama 185
15. 10. Men’s Liberation, Men’s Wounds 205
16. 11. The Politics of Feeling 230
17. Bibliography 255
18. Index 277