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Tables of Contents for The Feminization of American Culture
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
ix
2
Preface to the 1998 Noonday Edition
xi
Introduction: The Legacy of American Victorianism: The Meaning of Little Eva
3
14
PART ONE THE SENTIMENTALIZATION OF STATUS
17
104
1. Clerical Disestablishment
17
27
2. Feminine Disestablishment
44
36
3. Ministers and Mothers: Changing and Exchanging Roles
80
41
PART TWO THE SENTIMENTALIZATION OF CREED AND CULTURE
121
138
4. The Loss of Theology: From Dogma to Fiction
121
44
5. The Escape from History: The Static Imagination
165
35
6. The Domestication of Death: The Posthumous Congregation
200
27
7. The Periodical Press: Arena for Hostility
227
32
PART THREE PROTEST: CASE STUDIES IN AMERICAN ROMANTICISM
259
68
8. Margaret Fuller and the Disavowal of Fiction
259
30
9. Herman Melville and the Revolt Against the Reader
289
38
Epilogue
327
3
Appendix A. Alphabetical Listing of Women and Ministers
330
2
Appendix B. Chronological Listing of Women and Ministers
332
14
Notes
346
43
Index
389