Merish, Lori. <br/><br/>
Sentimental Materialism :  Gender, Commodity Culture, and Nineteenth-Century American Literature. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (401 pages) 
 - New Americanists Series .
 - New Americanists Series .
<br/><br/>Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Forms of Cultured Feeling -- Chapter 1. Embodying Gender: Sentimental Materialism in the New Republic -- Chapter 2. Gender, Domesticity, and Consumption in the 1830s: Caroline Kirkland, Catharine Sedgwick, and the Feminization of American Consumerism -- Chapter 3. Sentimental Consumption: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Aesthetics of Middle-Class Ownership -- Chapter 4. Domesticating "Blackness": Harriet Jacobs, Sojourner Truth, and the Decommodification of the Black Female Body -- Chapter 5. Fashioning a Free Self: Consumption, Politics, and Power in the Writings of Elizabeth Keckley and Frances Harper -- Chapter 6. Not "Just a Cigar": Commodity Culture and the Construction of Imperial Manhood -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780822377962 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Women-United States-Social life and customs-19th century.<br/>Women consumers-United States-History-19th century.<br/>Sex role-United States-History-19th century.<br/>Material culture-United States-History-19th century.<br/>Women in literature.<br/>Material culture in literature.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HQ1418 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>305.42/0973/09034