Introduction : the moving encounter in antebellum literature
The evolution of moving encounters in Lydia Maria Child's American Indian writings, 1824-1870
Doomed sympathy and The prairie : rereading Natty Bumppo as a sentimental intermediary
"Be man!" : emasculating sympathy and the Southern patriarchal response in the fiction of William Gilmore Simms
Containing native feeling : sentiment in the autobiographies of William Apess, Mary Jemison, and Black Hawk
The book, the poet, the Indian : transcendental intermediaries in Margaret Fuller's Summer on the lakes and Henry David Thoreau's The Maine woods
"Sorrows in excess!" : the limits of sympathy in the ethnography of George Caitlin, Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, and Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
Restoring the Noahic family : the three races of America in Mary Eastman's Aunt Phillis's cabin and Mary Howard Schoolcraft's The black gauntlet
Staging encounters and reclaiming sympathy through Indian melodramas and parodies, 1821-1855
Conclusion : moving beyond sentiment or cynicism.
