A Token of My Affection: Greeting Cards and American Business Culture

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Structured Feelings amid Circulations of the Heart1. Vicious Sentiments: Nineteenth-Century Valentines and the Sentimental Production of Class Boundaries2. The Nineteenth-Century Christmas Card: The Chromo-Reproduction of Sentimental Value3. Corporate Sentiment: The Rise of the Twentieth-Century Greeting Card Industry and the American Culture of Business4. Condensation, Displacement, and Masquerade: The Dream-Work of Greeting Cards5. Knitting the Social Lace: The Use of Greeting Cards6. All This Senseless Rationality: Beyond the End of the Modern Era of Greeting CardsNotesBibliographyIndex