Sentimental collaborations : mourning and middle-class identity in nineteenth-century America
During the 1992 Democratic Convention and again while delivering Harvard University's commencement address two years later, Vice President Al Gore shared with his audience a story that showed the effect of sentiment in his life.
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xx, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780822324355, 9780822324713, 0822324350, 0822324717
41380412
Preface Introduction: The Forgotten Language of Sentimentality Part One: The “Language Which May Never Be Forgot” 1. Harriet Gould’s Book: Description and Provenance 2. “We Shore These Fragments against Our Ruin” Part Two: Sentimental Collaborations: Mourning and the American Self 3. “And Sister Sing the Song I Love”: Circulation of the Self and Other within the Stasis of Lyric 4. The Circulation of the Dead and the Making of the Self in the Novel Part Three: The Competition of Sentimental Nationalisms: Lydia Sigourney and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 5. The Competition of Sentimental Nationalism 6. The Other American Poets Part Four: Mourning Sentimentality in Reconstruction-Era America: Mark Twain’s Nostalgic Realism 7. Invoking the Bonds of Affection: Tom Sawyer and America’s Morning 8. Mourning America’s Morning: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Epilogue: Converting Loss to Profit: Collaborations of Sentiment and Speculation Appendix 1: Harriet Gould’s Book Appendix 2: Addenda to Harriet Gould’s Book Notes Selected Bibliography Index