| Acknowledgments | |
| 1 | Introduction: Body Politics | 3 |
| Pt. 1 | Sentiment and Citizenship | 25 |
| 2 | United States Liberalism and the Public Sphere | 27 |
| 3 | The Patriot's Two Bodies: Nationality and Corporeality in George Washington's "Farewell Address" | 55 |
| Pt. 2 | Sentiment and Sex | 79 |
| 4 | Corresponding Sentiments and Republican Letters: Hannah Foster's The Coquette | 81 |
| 5 | Masochism and Male Sentimentalism: Charles Brockden Brown's Clara Howard | 112 |
| Pt. 3 | Sentiment and Sexuality | 135 |
| 6 | Obscene Publics: Jesse Sharpless and Harriet Jacobs | 137 |
| 7 | Afterword: Closeted Sentiments | 155 |
| Notes | 161 |
| Index | 205 |
