Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: History, Narrative, and Subjectivity
2. The Terrible Question of "Life in the Iron-Mills"
3. The Common Story of Margret Howth
4. The Savage Necessity of Abolition and Civil War
5. The Soul Starvation of the Domestic Woman
6. Race Reconstruction, the Discourse of Sentiment: Waiting for the Verdict
7. Nature, Nurture, and Nationalism: "A Faded Leaf of History"
8. The Politics of Nature: "The Yates of Black Mountain"
9. To Be, to Do, and to Suffer: The New Woman
Notes
Index