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The Plight of Feeling : Sympathy and Dissent in the Early American Novel.

American novels written in the wake of the Revolution overflow with self-conscious theatricality and impassioned excess. In The Plight of Feeling, Julia A. Stern shows that these sentimental, melodramatic, and gothic works can be read as an emotional history of the early republic, reflecting the hat...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Stern, Julia A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1997.
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