Public sentiments [electronic resource]
להגדלת הטקסט להקטנת הטקסט- ספר
In this book, Glenn Hendler explores what he calls the ""logic of sympathy"" in novels by Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, T. S. Arthur, Martin Delany, Horatio Alger, Fanny Fern, Nathaniel Parker Willis, Henry James, Mark Twain, and William Dean Howells. For these nineteenth-century writers, he argues, sympathetic identification was not strictly an individual, feminizing, and private feeling but the quintessentially public sentiment--a transformative emotion with the power to shape social institutions and political movements.Uniting current scholarship on gender in nineteenth-century A
כותר |
Public sentiments [electronic resource] : structures of feeling in nineteenth-century American literature / Glenn Hendler. |
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מוציא לאור |
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press |
שנה |
c2001 |
הערות |
Description based upon print version of record. Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-268) and index. English |
הערת תוכן ותקציר |
Acknowledgments Introduction: Structures of Feeling in Nineteenth-Century America Part I. Institutions of the Public Sphere 1. Sentimental Experience 2. Citizenship & Civility 3. Pandering in the Public Sphere Part II. Performing Publicity 4. An Unequaled System of Publicity 5. Publicity is Personal 6. Growing Up in Public Coda: Toward a History of Identification Notes Index |
היקף החומר |
1 online resource (287 p.) |
שפה |
אנגלית |
מספר מערכת |
997010716654005171 |
תצוגת MARC
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