Family, kinship, and sympathy in nineteenth-century American literature

In loco parentis

"A sort of adopted daughter": family relations in The lamplighter

Thinking through sympathy: Kemble, Hentz, and Stowe

Behind the scenes of sentimental novels: Ida Mae and Twelve years a slave

Love American style: The wide, wide world

We are family, or Melville's Pierre.

In loco parentis

"A sort of adopted daughter": family relations in The lamplighter

Thinking through sympathy: Kemble, Hentz, and Stowe

Behind the scenes of sentimental novels: Ida Mae and Twelve years a slave

Love American style: The wide, wide world

We are family, or Melville's Pierre.