Description: Examines the constructions of feminine consumption in the nineteenth century in relation to capitalism and domesticity.
Review Quotes: "Important not just for the way it brings together a stunning variety of primary materials but for the productive new readings it offers of well-known and lesser-known literary texts, of ante- and postbellum women's culture, the history of consumerism, and the practice of 'personal life' in nineteenth-century U.S. culture. Sentimental Materialism is full of both subtle and striking insights."--Dana Nelson, author of National Manhood: Capitalist Citizenship and the Imagined Fraternity of White Men