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, sympathetic
identification was not strictly an individual, feminizing, and
private feeling but the quintessentially public sentiment -- a
transformative emotion with the power to shape social institutions
and political movements.
Uniting current scholarship on gender in nineteenth-century
American culture with historical and theoretical debates on the
definition of the public sphere in the period, Hendler shows how
novels taught diverse readers to "feel right", to experience their
identities as male or female, black or white, middle or working
class, through a sentimental, emotionally based structure of
feeling. He links novels with such wide-ranging cultural and
political discourses as the temperance movement, feminism, and
black nationalism. Public Sentiments demonstrates that, whether
published for commercial reasons or for higher moral and aesthetic
purposes, the nineteenth-century American novel was conceived of as
a public instrument designed to play in a sentimental key.
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