Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Toward a literary history of racial sentiment
- 1 The politics of slavery and the discourse of race, 1787–1840
- 2 Remaking natural rights: race and slavery in James Fenimore Cooper's early writings
- 3 Domestic frontier romance, or, how the sentimental heroine became white
- 4 “Homely legends”: the uses of sentiment in Cooper's The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish
- 5 Stowe's vanishing Americans: “negro” interiority, captivity, and homecoming in Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Conclusion: Captain Babo's cabin: racial sentiment and the politics of misreading in Benito Cereno
- Notes
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Toward a literary history of racial sentiment
- 1 The politics of slavery and the discourse of race, 1787–1840
- 2 Remaking natural rights: race and slavery in James Fenimore Cooper's early writings
- 3 Domestic frontier romance, or, how the sentimental heroine became white
- 4 “Homely legends”: the uses of sentiment in Cooper's The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish
- 5 Stowe's vanishing Americans: “negro” interiority, captivity, and homecoming in Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Conclusion: Captain Babo's cabin: racial sentiment and the politics of misreading in Benito Cereno
- Notes
- Index
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- The Making of Racial SentimentSlavery and the Birth of The Frontier Romance, pp. 239 - 244Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006