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Earlierversionsofportionsofthisbookwerepreviouslypublishedunderthe
followingtitles:‘‘TheStructureofSentimentalExperience,’’YaleJournalof
Criticism,no.():–;‘‘BloatedBodiesandSoberSentiments:
MasculinityinsTemperanceFiction,’’inSentimentalMen:Masculinityandthe
PoliticsofAffectinAmericanCulture,ed.MaryChapmanandGlennHendler
(BerkeleyandLosAngeles:UniversityofCaliforniaPress,):–;
‘‘PanderinginthePublicSphere:MasculinityandtheMarketinHoratioAlger,’’
AmericanQuarterly,no.(September):–;‘‘TomSawyer’s
Masculinity,’’ArizonaQuarterly,no.(Winter):–;‘‘TheLimitsof
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Acknowledgments,ix
Introduction.
StructuresofFeelinginNineteenth-CenturyAmerica,
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SentimentalExperience:
WhiteManhoodinsTemperanceNarratives,
CivilityandCitizenship:
MartinDelany’sBlackPublicSphere,
PanderinginthePublicSphere:
MasculinityandtheMarketinHoratioAlger’sFiction,
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AnUnequaledSystemofPublicity:
TheLogicofSympathyinWomen’sSentimentalFiction,
PublicityIsPersonal:
FannyFern,NathanielParkerWillis,andHenryJames,
GrowingUpinPublic:
TheBadBoyandHisAudiences,
Coda.
TowardaHistoryofIdentification,
Notes,
Index,
Thefirstreadersofpartsofthisbookwerethemembersof‘‘thedisserta-
tiongroup’’atNorthwestern,NinaMillerandNancyRing.Thoughonly
somepiecesofwhattheyreadremain,andeventhosehavebeenputinto
adifferentframe,Iamsuretheycanrecognizetheirinvaluableinfluence,
andIhopetheyknowhowmuchIappreciateit.BobFanuzzi,LaurieMil-
ner,DougPayne,andMattRobertswerealsogreatcolleaguesandcom-
patriotsduringthiswork’searlystages.Thanksforsupportandintellec-
tualinspirationarealsoduetoMichalGinsburg,MimiWhite,andNancy
Fraser.Ihadsure-handedguidancefromJohnBrenkman,GeraldGraff,
KenWarren,andespeciallyMichaelWarner.
Sustainingmethroughtheyearsofadjunctworkthatseemtohavebe-
comeprerequisitesforamorestableacademiccareerwerefriendsandcol-
leaguesattheUniversityofWesternOntario,includingTomCarmichael,
JulieDiCresce,JacquelineJenkins,SarahKing,MartyKreiswirth,Alison
Lee,JeffOgborne,andNicholasWatson.Thanksareduetothem,andto
othersfrommytimeinCanada,whichtaughtmetolookwithamoredis-
tancedeyeatpolitics,culture,andthepublicsphereintheUnitedStates.
As this project has grown and mutated over the years, my debts to
friendsandcolleagueshaveproliferated,andIworryaboutleavingsome-
oneoffthislist.Butitfeelstomelikeacontinuationofanongoingintellec-
tualconversation,andthosewhohaveparticipatedcan,Ihope,seetheir
contributions in the text itself. Special thanks are due to the members
of twowriting groups,one at Notre Dame (Doris Bergen, Kathy Bid-
dick,JuliaDouthwaite,BarbaraGreen,SandraGustafson,andChristian
Moevs)andanotherinChicago(LisaBrawley,ChrisCastiglia,LucyRine-
hart,andSandraGustafsonagain).Icanonlyhopethatallscholarshave
athandsuchagenerousandcriticallocalpublicfortheirwork.
ThanksaswelltoMaryChapman,mycoconspiratorintheessaycol-
lectiontitledSentimentalMen,notonlybecauseIcouldnotthankherin
thosepages,butalsobecauseherresponsestomyideashavealwaysmade
myworkbetter.GordonHutnerhelpedturnamassivechapteronAlcott
intoarelativelyconcisearticle;thoughIhavenowturneditintosome-
thingelseagain,hissuggestionsmadeitbetterthanitotherwisewould
havebeen.ManythankstoLoriMerishforsomegreatconversationsand
readings.MuchappreciationisduetoRobertLevineforintellectualhelp,
professionalsupport,andsoundadvice.Severalaudienceshaveresponded
totalksbasedonthisbook;suchdialoguenotonlymakestheworkbetter,
italsomakesitpleasurable.Inthatregard,especiallyworthmentioningare
audiencesatWesternOntario’sCentrefortheStudyofTheoryandCriti-
cismandtheCentreforAmericanStudies,andcolleaguesandstudents
whoparticipatedincolloquiasponsoredbyNotreDame’sGenderStudies
Program.AlsoatNotreDame,Ihavebenefitedgreatlyfromconversa-
tions with Gail Bederman, JayWalton, Jeanne Kilde, Mark Behr, John
Waters,LauraWinkiel,andespeciallyGloria-JeanMasciarotte,aswellas
withgraduatestudentsintwocoursesItaughton‘‘FictionsofthePub-
licSphere.’’ThankstoKatherineEldredforhelpwithclassicalreferences.
BruceBurgetthelpedmemorethanIdeserved;Icouldnothavedone
itwithouthim.ThankstoElizabethHelsingerforinvitingmetoteach
agraduatecourseonthismaterialattheUniversityofChicago,andto
thosestudentsforallowingmeanotheropportunitytotestoutmyideas.
HibacktoBrian,finally.Andthankstomymother,ConnieHendler,for
beingasupportiveandintellectuallycriticalreader.Initslaterstages,this
bookowesagreatdealtotwoanonymousreadersfortheUniversityof
NorthCarolinaPress,andespeciallytoSianHunteratthePress,whois
everythingonecouldaskforinaneditor.Moreinformalthanksaredue
toeveryoneattheHopleaf,aswellastoBillSavage,forhelpingtoputthe
pubinthepublicsphere.
WorkonthisbookwasfacilitatedbyfinancialsupportfromtheSocial
SciencesandHumanitiesResearchCouncilofCanadaandfromtheInsti-
tuteforScholarshipintheLiberalArtsattheUniversityofNotreDame.
Iamgratefultotheseorganizationsfortheirsupport.
Earlyinthisproject,mysisterdied;justasIcompletedit,Ilostmy
father to cancer.The usual frustrations and satisfactions entailed in the
longprocessofwritingabookwerethusovershadowedatcrucialtimesby
other,verydifferentfeelings.Thoughitmaybesentimentalitythatmakes
methinkso,IfeeltheabsenceofDadandKimsharply,atunexpectedmo-
ments,inreadingandrereadingthisbook.Itisdedicatedtotherestof
myfamily—mymother,ConnieHendler,andmybrother,DavidSloo—
inmemoryofmysister,KimHendler,andmyfather,GlennHendler.
x} Acknowledgments
Description: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
