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Tables of Contents for States of Sympathy
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
6
Acknowledgments
xv
1. The Politics of Sympathy
1
18
2. Natural and National Unions
19
21
Domesticating Sympathy
The Metapolitics of Common Sense
The Erotics of Common Sense: The Power of Sympathy
The Man Within the Breast
3. Seductive Education and the Virtues of the Republic Conventional Rebellions
40
34
The Art of Seducation: The Crimes of Love and Wieland
"Female Education" and Its Discontents
The Authority of Representation: Charlotte Temple
"This Man Will Seduce Me Into Matrimony": The Coquette
4. Changing the Subject: Domestic Fictions of Self-Possession
74
26
Domestic Reformations
The Conversion to Love: A New-England Tale
Corporate Individualism: The Lamplighter
Reimagining the Familiar Body: Uncle Tom's Cabin
5. Mothers of Seduction
100
15
The Lessons of Womanhood
Literate and Literary Daughters: The Wide, Wide World
Mirroring the Mother Text: Love's Progress and Ernest Linwood
Conclusion: Billy Budd and the Critique of Sympathy
115
12
Notes
127
20
Index
147