Book
On sympathetic grounds: race, gender, and affective geographies in nineteenth-century North America
Oxford University Press
2018
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190460983.001.0001
Abstract
On Sympathetic Grounds lays out sympathy's vital place in shaping North America. Naomi Greyser intersperses theoretical reflection on the affective production of space with analysis of vales of tears, heart-rending oratory, and emplotment of narrative and land in work by Sojourner Truth, Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, Nathaniel Hawthorne and others.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- On sympathetic grounds: race, gender, and affective geographies in nineteenth-century North America
- Creators
- Naomi Greyser - University of Iowa, American Studies
- Resource Type
- Book
- Table of contents
- 1. A Paper Trail of Tears: Sentimental Sovereignty, Indian Removal, and Staking Claims to North America; 5. “Do I Not All Thy Sorrows Heed, And Bear Thee on My Heart?”: Harriet E. Wilson and the Unsympathetic Materialism of White Northern Domesticity; Introduction: Race, Gender, and Affective Geographies; Index; 2. The Ethical Bind of Sentimentalism: Rhetorical Intimacy in the Public Sphere and the Many Narratives of Sojourner Truth; Copyright; Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; On Sympathetic Grounds; 3. Between Intimacy and Distance, a “Neutral Territory”: Sentimentalism, Writer’s Block, and Untouchable Masculinity in The Scarlet Letter; 4. Plotting Maidens and Traitors: Sympathy, Displacement, and Survivance in the New Southwest; Epilogue: “Spectres of Liberty” and the Archive: Sympathy Across Race and Gender, Time and Space; Notes; Bibliography; Cover -- On Sympathetic Grounds -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Race, Gender, and Affective Geographies -- 1. A Paper Trail of Tears: Sentimental Sovereignty, Indian Removal, and Staking Claims to North America -- 2. The Ethical Bind of Sentimentalism: Rhetorical Intimacy in the Public Sphere and the Many Narratives of Sojourner Truth -- 3. Between Intimacy and Distance, a "Neutral Territory": Sentimentalism, Writer's Block, and Untouchable Masculinity in The Scarlet Letter -- 4. Plotting Maidens and Traitors: Sympathy, Displacement, and Survivance in the New Southwest -- 5. "Do I Not All Thy Sorrows Heed, And Bear Thee on My Heart?": Harriet E. Wilson and the Unsympathetic Materialism of White Northern Domesticity -- Epilogue: "Spectres of Liberty" and the Archive: Sympathy Across Race and Gender, Time and Space -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
- DOI
- 10.1093/oso/9780190460983.001.0001
- ISBN
- 0190460997; 9780190460990; 9780190087623; 0190087625; 0190460989; 9780190460983
- eISBN
- 0190460997; 9780190460990; 9780190461003; 0190461004
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press; New York
- Number of pages
- xi, 258 pages
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2018
- Academic Unit
- Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies; English; American Studies
- Record Identifier
- 9983917997302771
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