Sentimental Collaborations: Mourning and Middle-Class Identity in Nineteenth-Century America (New Americanists)

"Such is the reach of Kete's scholarship that it succeeds in illuminating both the private experience of grief in American families and the public constitution of a national middle-class culture. It does so through a sophisticated reconceptualization of the forms and functions of sentimentalism in poetry and fiction."-Robert Gross, College of William and MaryMary Louise Kete is the author of 'Sentimental Collaborations: Mourning and Middle-Class Identity in Nineteenth-Century America (New Americanists)', published 2000 under ISBN 9780822324713 and ISBN 0822324717.