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Book Review | The Journal of American History, 86.4 | The History Cooperative

Criminal Conversations: Sentimentality and Nineteenth-Century Legal Stories of Adultery. By Laura Hanft Korobkin. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. x, 247 pp. Cloth, $49.50, isbn 0-231-10508-8. Paper, $18.50, isbn 0-231-10509-6.)

Criminal Conversations is a provocative analysis of sentimentality in nineteenth-century American public discourse. Though the book is directed primarily at literary analysts, Laura Hanft Korobkin's thoughtful meditation on the power of storytelling and her assertions about the importance of context make her argument of great interest to historians. . . .

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