Sentimental Materialism : Gender, Commodity Culture, and Nineteenth-Century American Literature.

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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