Sentimental Collaborations : Mourning and Middle-Class Identity in Nineteenth-Century America.

Intro -- Contents -- 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 Nationalisms -- 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.

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