..., Lauren. “Poor Eliza.” American Literature 70.3 (Sep. 1998 ): 635 –68. ———. “The Female Woman: Fanny Fern and the Form of Sentiment.” Samuels , ed. 265 –82. Bernal, Martin. Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization . 2 vols. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1987 . Bertolini...

... Faith: The Social Gospel and Modern American Culture . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1991 . Davis, Rebecca Harding. Margret Howth . 1862. New York: The Feminist P, 1990 . Dobson, Joanne. “Reclaiming Sentimental Literature.” American Literature 69.2 (June 1997 ): 263 –88. Douglas, Ann...

... of the narrative temporality that give form to grief as an impersonal affect in contrast to the sentimentality and interpersonal relationality through which the text is often read. The last part of the article advocates for a turn from the nonrelationality of the antisocial thesis in queer theory to a theory...

...PHILIP GOULD 1999 philip gould is Associate Professor of English at Brown University. He is currently at work on a book on eighteenth-century antislavery writing and commercial culture. Brown, Herbert Ross. The Sentimental Novel in America,1789–1860 . Durham: Duke UP, 1940...

... York: Schocken, 1969 . 217 –51. Berlant, Lauren. “The Female Woman: Fanny Fern and the Form of Sentiment.” The Culture of Sentiment: Race, Gender, and Sentimentality in Nineteenth-Century America . Ed. Shirley Samuels. New York: Oxford UP, 1992 . 265 –82. ———. “Poor Eliza.” American Literature...

... . 1755. New York: ams, 1967 . Kelley, Hugh. “The Babler Number V: The Sentimental Libertine; a Story Founded upon Fact.” The Massachusetts Magazine (Mar. 1790 ): 173 –74. Kerber, Linda. Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America . Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P...

..., Institutionalism, and the Idiom of Failure way that my primary focus—feminism’s idiom of political failure—is always overwritten by the sense that failure consigns women to the domestic, narcissistic, or irrecuperably sentimental once again. I...

... on graves. Their final interpellation is that calling-out to the passerby, “Someday you too will be like me, entombed.” This sentiment is monumentalized as the words are held in display. The naturally mobile timing of language gets suspended for the eye as the lapidary inscription. The word is no longer...

.... Scott Fitzgerald . Urba na: U of Illinois P, 1972 . Caruth, Cathy. Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative,and History . Baltimore: Johns Hopki ns UP, 1996 . Cheng, Anne Anlin. The Melancholy of Race . New York: Oxford UP, 2000 . Clark, Suzanne. Sentimental Modernism: Women Writers...

... Perkins] Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper' would make it onto college reading lists, sandwiched in between Theodore Dreiser and Frank Norris" (267). Tompkins's interest in the mid-nineteenth-century sentimental writers whom she views as still neglected in 1985 leads her to leave Chopin and Gilman behind.2...

... : Stein and Day , 1974 . Samuels Shirley , ed. The Culture of Sentiment: Race, Gender and Sentimentalism in Nineteenth-Century America . New York : Oxford UP , 1992 . Scarry Elaine . “ Thinking in an Emergency .” Pembroke Center for Research on Women, Brown U. Fall , 1994...

... Gender:Beyond Sexual Dimorphism in Culture and History . Ed. Gilbert Herdt. New York: Lane, 1994 . 28 -32. Johnson, Claudia. Equivocal Beings: Politics, Gender,and Sentimentality in the 1790s . Chicago: u of Chicagop, 1995 . Kant, Immanuel. “Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch.” Kant: Selections...

... of the symbolic order in which "Somewhere" functions. That is, the kid from Ohio recognizes the song as a quilting point, a point de capiton, for the North American sentimental economy that determines the available modalities of gay male being. As such, the signifier is not arbitrary; it has a "natural...

....) In the Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)—the foundation for his capitalist treatise The Wealth of Nations—Smith claims that morality is an intrinsic part of the self-interest that famously drives human nature and capitalism alike (this last...

... the freezing point, the point of dialectical transmutation, a divine latency corresponding to the catastrophe of the Ice Age. But under the cold remains a supersensual sentimentality buried under the ice and protected by fur; this sentimentality radiates in turn through the ice as the generative principle...

... arbitrary rule. (United States, Correspondence 2: 859) Disclaiming the catastrophic violence ofwar,1 the discourse of benevolent assimilation amounted to a sentimental reworking of an earlier notion of "manifest destiny." Instead of annihilation, it called for the domestication of the native populations...

...- theless a humanism of feelings, an appeal to shared sentiment. Certainly, like the medical articles at which my housemates winced, talking with others about the idea of “bleaching babies” generates a corporeal response 28...

... effects surface most force- fully within accounts of the so-called rise of the companionate marriage where, for Lawrence Stone, the Act was antagonistic to the forces of love, sentiment, and companionacy that underpinned the formation...

..., 1987 . 133 –92. Ellmer, Jonathan. “Poe, Sensationalism, and the Sentimental Tradition.” Reading at the Social Limit . Stanford: Stanford UP, 1995 . 93 –125. Gautier, Théophile. “La morte amoureuse.” 1836. Récits fantastiques . Paris: Garnier Flammarion, 1981 . 117 –50. von Graevenitz...

... Public Sphere Collective, ed. The Black Public Sphere . Chicago: u of Chicago p, 1995 . Brown, Gillian. Domestic Individualism: Imagining Self in Nineteenth-Century America . Berkeley: u of California p, 1990 . Burgett, Bruce. Sentimental Bodies: Sex, Gender, and Citizenship in the Early...