Sentimental Readers : The Rise, Fall, and Revival of a Disparaged Rhetoric /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Halpern, Faye
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sentimentalität
Rhetorik
Rezeption
Literatur
Leser
Sentimentalism in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Narration.
Literature.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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