Preface

Introduction

PART 1: CANONS

Separate Spheres, Female Worlds, Woman's Place: The Rhetoric of Women's History

``My Sister! My Sister!'': The Rhetoric of Catharine Sedgwick's Hope Leslie

Herman Melville, Wife Beating, and the Written Page

Contradictory Impulses: Maria Ampara Ruiz de Burton, Resistance Theory, and the Politics of Chicano/a Studies

Sex, Class, and ``Category Crisis'': Reading Jewett's Transitivity

PART 2: DOMESTICITY UNDONE: CASE STUDIES

Manifest Domesticity

Passing through the Closet in Pauline E. Hopkins's Contending Forces

Constructing the Black Masculine: Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and the Sublimits of African American Autobiography

Native Daughters in the Promised Land: Gender, Race, and the Question of Separate Spheres

PART 3: PUBLIC SENTIMENT

Poor Eliza

Representative/Democracy: Presidents, Democratic Management, and the Unfinished Business of Male Sentimentalism

Fathers, Sons, Sentimentality, and the Color Line: The Not-Quite-Separate Spheres of W.E.B.Du Bois and Ralph Waldo Emerson

``Few of Our Seeds Ever Came Up at All'': A Dialogue on Hawthorne, Delany, and the Work of Affect in Visionary Utopias

Selected Bibliography

Contributors

Index