Sentimental men : masculinity and the politics of affect in American culture / Mary Chapman and Glenn Hendler, editors. - Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, �1999. - 1 online resource (ix, 288 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 S�anchez-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.


English.

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American literature--Male authors--History and criticism.
Men--Psychology.--United States
Sentimentalism in literature.
Masculinity in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Emotions in literature.
Men in literature.
Litt�erature am�ericaine--Histoire et critique.
Hommes--Psychologie.--�Etats-Unis
Sentimentalisme dans la litt�erature.
Masculinit�e dans la litt�erature.
R�ole selon le sexe dans la litt�erature.
�Emotions dans la litt�erature.
Hommes dans la litt�erature.
�Ecrits d'hommes am�ericains--Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM--American--General.
American literature--Male authors.
Emotions in literature.
Masculinity in literature.
Men in literature.
Men--Psychology.
Sentimentalism in literature.
Sex role in literature.
English.
Languages & Literatures.
American Literature.


United States.


Electronic books.
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PS153.M3 / S46 1999eb

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