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Sentimental Readers : The Rise, Fall, and Revival of a Disparaged Rhetoric /
How could novels like Uncle Tom's Cabin change the hearts and minds of thousands of mid-nineteenth-century readers, yet make so many modern readers cringe at their over-the-top, tear-filled scenes? Sentimental Readers explains why sentimental rhetoric was so compelling to readers of that earlie...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
2013.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: The how of sentimentality
- Edward Tyrrel channing and the matter of disingenuous eloquence
- Why we should trust Harriet Beecher Stowe
- The art of appearances in Louisa May Alcott
- Henry Ward Beecher and the fall of the sentimental orator
- In defense of reading badly
- A critical problem with being a good reader of sentimental rhetoric.