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Sentimental Collaborations : Mourning and Middle-Class Identity in Nineteenth-Century America /
During the 1992 Democratic Convention and again while delivering Harvard University's commencement address two years later, Vice President Al Gore shared with his audience a story that showed the effect of sentiment in his life. In telling how an accident involving his son had provided him with...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
[2000]
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| Colección: | New Americanists : 16
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: The Forgotten Language of Sentimentality
- PART ONE. The "Language which May Never Be Forgot"
- 1. Harriet Gould's Book: Description and Provenance
- 2. "We Shore These Fragments against Our Ruin"
- PART TWO. Sentimental Collaborations: Mourning and the American Self
- 3. "And Sister Sing the Song I Love": Circulation of the Self and Other within the Stasis of Lyric
- 4. The Circulation of the Dead and the Making of the Self in the Novel
- PART THREE. The Competition of Sentimental Nationalisms: Lydia Sigourney and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- 5. The Competition of Sentimental Nationalisms
- 6. The Other American Poets
- PART FOUR. Mourning Sentimentality in Reconstruction-Era America: Mark Twain's Nostalgic Realism
- 7. Invoking the Bonds of Affection: Tom Sawyer and America's Morning
- 8. Mourning America's Morning: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Epilogue: Converting Loss to profit: Collaborations of Sentiment and Speculation
- Appendix I: Harriet Gould's Book
- Appendix 2: Addenda to Harriet Gould's Book
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index