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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...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2000.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: The Forgotten Language of Sentimentality
- pt. 1. The "Language Which May Never Be Forgot" 1. Harriet Gould's Book: Description and Provenance. 2. "We Shore These Fragments against Our Ruin"
- pt. 2. 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
- pt. 3. The Competition of Sentimental Nationalisms: Lydia Sigourney and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 5. The Competition of Sentimental Nationalisms. 6. The Other American Poets
- pt. 4. Mourning Sentimentality in Reconstruction-Era America: Mark Twain's Nostalgic Realism.