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Sentimentalism in nineteenth-century America : literary and cultural practices /
Tracing the eighteenth-century origins of sentimentalism, the collection illustrates its proliferation in nineteenth-century America. Sentimental writings by both sexes played a major role in the formation of middle-class culture and identity as sentimentalism interacted with developing ideals of do...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Madison : Lanham, Maryland :
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Co-published with The Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group, Incorporated,
[2013]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Mary De Jong
- Rethinking Sentimental Motherhood. "These Human Flowers": Sentimentalizing Children and Fashioning Maternal Authority in Godey's Lady's Book / Kara Clevinger
- "The Medicine of Sympathy": Maternal Affective Pedagogy in Antebellum America / Ken Parille
- The Ethics of Postbellum Melancholy in the Poetry of Sarah Piatt / D. Zachary Finch
- The Politics of Sentimentality. "The Language of the Eye": Communication and Sentimental Benevolence in Lydia Sigourney's Poems and Essays about the Deaf / Elizabeth Petrino
- Lydia Maria Child's Use of Sentimentalism in Letters from New-York / Susan Toth Lord
- Sympathetic Jo: Tomboyism, Poverty, and Race in Alcott's Little Women / Kristen Proehl
- Loss, Death, Mourning and Grief. Desired and Imagined Loss as Sympathetic Identification: Bachelor Melancholia in Donald Grant Mitchell's Reveries of a Bachelor / Maglina Lubovich
- The Collaborative Construction of a Death-Defying Cryptext: Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass / Adam Bradford
- "Such Verses for My Body Let Us Write": Civil War Song, Sentimentalism, and Whitman's Drum-Taps / Robert Arbour
- Psychological Sentimentalism: Consciousness, Affect, and the Sentimental Henry James / George Gordon-Smith
- Afterword / Mary Louise Kete.