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"Such is the reach of Kete's scholarship that it succeeds in illuminating both the private experience of grief in American families and the public constitution of a national middle-class culture. It does so through a sophisticated reconceptualization of the forms and functions of sentimentalism in poetry and fiction."--Robert Gross, College of William and Mary
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Preface
Introduction: The Forgotten Language of Sentimentality
Part One:
The “Language Which May Never Be Forgot” 1.
Harriet Gould’s Book: Description and Provenance
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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
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Mary Louise Kete
Riassunto
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.
