Public sentiments : structures of feeling in nineteenth-century American literature /

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In this work, Glenn Hendler explores what he calls the "logic of sympathy" in novels by Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, T.S. Arthur, Martin Delany, Horatio Alger, Fanny Fern, Nathaniel Parker Willis, Henry James, Mark Twain, and William Dean Howells

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hendler, Glenn, 1962- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2001]
Subjects:
1800-1899
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Emotions in literature.
Didactic fiction, American > History and criticism.
Sentimentalism in literature.
Sympathy in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Littérature américaine > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Émotions dans la littérature.
Sentimentalisme dans la littérature.
Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature.
Roman didactique américain > Histoire et critique.
Sympathie dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature.
Didactic fiction, American.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Description
Summary:In this work, Glenn Hendler explores what he calls the "logic of sympathy" in novels by Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, T.S. Arthur, Martin Delany, Horatio Alger, Fanny Fern, Nathaniel Parker Willis, Henry James, Mark Twain, and William Dean Howells
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 275 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-268) and index
ISBN:9780807860229
0807860220

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