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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, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 1997.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The plight of feeling
  • Working through the frame: the dream of transparency in Charlotte Temple
  • Beyond "a play about words": tyrannies of voice in the Coquette
  • A lady who sheds no tears: liberty, contagion, and the demise of fraternity in Ormond.