Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 In loco parentis
- 2 “A sort of adopted daughter”: family relations in The Lamplighter
- 3 Thinking through sympathy: Kemble, Hentz, and Stowe
- 4 Behind the scenes of sentimental novels: Ida May and Twelve Years a Slave
- 5 Love American style: The Wide, Wide World
- 6 We are family, or Melville's Pierre
- Afterword
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 In loco parentis
- 2 “A sort of adopted daughter”: family relations in The Lamplighter
- 3 Thinking through sympathy: Kemble, Hentz, and Stowe
- 4 Behind the scenes of sentimental novels: Ida May and Twelve Years a Slave
- 5 Love American style: The Wide, Wide World
- 6 We are family, or Melville's Pierre
- Afterword
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004