Colorful abstract cover for The New Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies edited by Russ Castronovo and Robert S Levine Against a botanical print cushion and bright yellow background

First page of Xine Yao’s essay. Happy to share a copy! “‘Unfeeling Stone’: Rethinking Sentimentality at the Heart of Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies.” The New Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies. Eds. Russ Castronovo and Robert S. Levine. Cambridge University Press, 2025. 297-308.

Chuffed to share my essay for The New C19 American Literary Studies @cambridgeup.bsky.social!

Overview of the field & reckoning 30+ years on from The Culture of Sentiment

I turn to Zitkála-Šá’s figuration of the desire to become “unfeeling stone”

Happy to share! #litpoc #poc19 #c19amlit