Author: Merish, Lori
Title: Sentimental Materialism: Gender, Commodity Culture, and Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Description: Durham [North Carolina], Duke University Press, 2000. orig.cloth. 24x15cm, ix,349 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Introduction: The Forms of Cultured Feeling; Embodying Gender: Sentimental Materialism in the New Republic; Gender, Domesticity, & Consumption in the 1830s: Caroline Kirkland, Catherine Sedgwick, & the Feminization of American Consumerism; Sentimental Consumption: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, & the Aesthetics of Middle-Class Ownership; Domesticating "Blackness": Harriet Jacobs, Sojourner Truth, & the Decommodification of the Black Female Body; Fashioning a Free Self: Consumption, Politics & Power in the Writings of Elizabeth Keckley & Frances Harper; Not "Just a Cigar": Commodity Culture & the Construction of Imperial Manhood; Conclusion.

Keywords: Literary Sociology, American Literature, Social History, United States, Women Women's, Gender Sex Roles, Feminist Theory, Feminism, Criticism Critical