Fireside chastity: the erotics of sentimental bachelorhood in the 1850s / Vincent J. Bertolini
Feeling for the fireside: Longfellow, Lynch, and the topography of poetic power / Kirsten Silva Gruesz
Then when we clutch hardest: on the death of a child and the replication of an image / Karen Sánchez-Eppler
The black body erotic and the republican body politic, 1790-1820 / John Saillant
Remembering metacom: historical writing and the cultures of masculinity in early republican America / Philip Gould
Bloated bodies and sober sentiments: masculinity in 1840s temperance narratives / Glenn Hendler
Sentimental abolition in Douglass's decade: revision, erotic conversion, and the politics of witnessing in The heroic slave and My bondage and my freedom / P. Gabrielle Foreman
Chivalric sentimentalism: the case of Dr. Howe and Laura Bridgman / Cassandra Cleghorn
The gaze of success: failed men and the sentimental marketplace, 1873-1893 / Scott A. Sandage
Masochism and male sentimentalism: Charles Brockden Brown's Clara Howard / Bruce Burgett
Sentimental and romantic masculinities in Moby-Dick and Pierre / Tara Penry
Sentimental realism in Thomas Eakins's late portraits / Martin A. Berger
Sentimental tentacles: Frank Norris's The octopus / Francesca Sawaya.