By Sara Lindey
“Mid-nineteenth-century fictional girls play powerful roles in the era’s political activism as sentimental sisters and redemptive daughters. This essay maps sentimental and redemptive girlhood discourses in an antislavery picture book that attempts to cast its heroine as both kinds of girls at once.” Read More

By Kyla Schuller
“This article explores the enabling intimacy between sentimentalism and biopolitics by turning to a less-than-obvious and yet characteristic example of the sentimental mode: the ubiquitous orphan tale of the mid- to late nineteenth century.” Read More