Sentimental Readers: The Rise, Fall, and Revival of a Disparaged Rhetoric

Acknowledgments

[ix] [Acknowledgments] Portions of chapters 1 and 2 appeared in Nineteenth-Century Prose 27:2 (2000), 47–61, in an article entitled “Why We Should Trust Harriet Beecher Stowe.”A version of chapter 5 was originally published in College English 70:6 (2008), 551–77 (copyright 2008 by the National Council of Teachers of English): “In Defense of Reading Badly: The Politics of Identification in ‘Benito Cereno,’UncleTom’s Cabin,and Our Classrooms.” A version of chapter 6 appeared in Narrative 19:1 (2011), 51–71:“Unmasking Criticism:The Problem with Being a Good Reader of Sentimental Rhetoric.” The three journals have generously agreed to let me reprint the material here. ...