Sentimental men masculinity and the politics of affect in American culture

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ISBN: 9780520921887 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0520921887 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0585184348 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780585184340 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0520216210 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 0520216229 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780520216211 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 0520216210 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780520216228 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0520216229 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (ix, 288 pages)
Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©1999.

General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Fireside chastity : the erotics of sentimental bachelorhood in the 1850s / Vincent J. Bertolini -- Feeling for the fireside : Longfellow, Lynch, and the topography of poetic power / Kirsten Silva Gruesz -- Then when we clutch hardest : on the death of a child and the replication of an image / Karen Sánchez-Eppler -- The black body erotic and the republican body politic, 1790-1820 / John Saillant -- Remembering metacom : historical writing and the cultures of masculinity in early republican America / Philip Gould -- Bloated bodies and sober sentiments : masculinity in 1840s temperance narratives / Glenn Hendler -- 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 -- Chivalric sentimentalism : the case of Dr. Howe and Laura Bridgman / Cassandra Cleghorn -- The gaze of success : failed men and the sentimental marketplace, 1873-1893 / Scott A. Sandage -- Masochism and male sentimentalism : Charles Brockden Brown's Clara Howard / Bruce Burgett -- Sentimental and romantic masculinities in Moby-Dick and Pierre / Tara Penry -- Sentimental realism in Thomas Eakins's late portraits / Martin A. Berger -- Sentimental tentacles : Frank Norris's The octopus / Francesca Sawaya.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.