Public Sentiments

In this book, Glenn Hendler explores what he calls the "logic of sympathy" in novels by Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, T. S. Arthur, Martin Delany, Horatio Alger, Fanny Fern, Nathaniel Parker Willis, Henry James, Mark Twain, and William Dean Howells. For these nineteenth-century writers, he argues, sympathetic identification was not strictly an individual, feminizing, and private feeling but the quintessentially public sentiment -- a transformative emotion with the power to shape social institutions and political movements.

Uniting current scholarship on gender in nineteenth-century American culture with historical and theoretical debates on the definition of the public sphere in the period, Hendler shows how novels taught diverse readers to "feel right", to experience their identities as male or female, black or white, middle or working class, through a sentimental, emotionally based structure of feeling. He links novels with such wide-ranging cultural and political discourses as the temperance movement, feminism, and black nationalism. Public Sentiments d

Acknowledgments
Introduction Structures of Feeling in Nineteenth-Century America	p. 1
Sentimental Experience White Manhood in 1840s Temperance Narratives	p. 29
Civility & Citizenship Martin Delany's Black Public Sphere	p. 53
Pandering in the Public Sphere Masculinity & the Market in Horatio Alger's Fiction	p. 82
An Unequaled System of Publicity the Logic of Sympathy in Women's Sentimental Fiction	p. 113
Publicity is Personal Fanny Fern, Nathaniel Parker Willis, and Henry James	p. 147
Growing Up in Public the Bad Boy & His Audiences	p. 184
Coda Toward a History of Identification	p. 212
Notes	p. 221
Index	p. 269
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