Cathy N. Davidson and Jessamyn Hatcher Introduction
PART 1: CANONS
Linda K. Kerber Separate Spheres, Female Worlds, Woman’s Place: The Rhetoric of Women’s History
Judith Fetterley ‘‘My Sister! My Sister!’’: The Rhetoric of Catharine Sedgwick’s Hope Leslie
Elizabeth Renker Herman Melville, Wife Beating, and the Written Page
José F. Aranda Jr. Contradictory Impulses: María Ampara Ruiz de Burton, Resistance Theory, and the Politics of Chicano/a Studies
Marjorie Pryse Sex, Class, and ‘‘Category Crisis’’: Reading Jewett’s Transitivity
PART 2: DOMESTICITY UNDONE: CASE STUDIES
Amy Kaplan Manifest Domesticity
Siobhan Somerville Passing through the Closet in Pauline E. Hopkins’s Contending Forces
Maurice Wallace Constructing the Black Masculine: Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and the Sublimits of African American Autobiography
You-me Park and Gayle Wald Native Daughters in the Promised Land: Gender, Race, and the Question of Separate Spheres
PART 3: PUBLIC SENTIMENT
Lauren Berlant Poor Eliza
Dana D. Nelson Representative/Democracy: Presidents, Democratic Management, and the Unfinished Business of Male Sentimentalism
Ryan Schneider Fathers, Sons, Sentimentality, and the Color Line: The Not-Quite-Separate Spheres of W. E. B. Du Bois and Ralph Waldo Emerson
Christopher Newfield and Melissa Solomon ‘‘Few of Our Seeds Ever Came Up at All’’: A Dialogue on Hawthorne, Delany, and the Work of Affect in Visionary Utopias
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