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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 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
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  • 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.