Emotional Reinventions : Realist-Era Representations Beyond Sympathy /

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"Focusing on representational approaches to emotion during the years of American literary realism's dominance and in the works of such authors as Edith Wharton, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, W.D. Howells, Charles Chesnutt, and others, Emotional Reinventions: Realist-Era Representations Beyond Sympa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dawson, Melanie, 1967-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
American Literature.
Languages & Literatures.
English.
Realism in literature.
Individuality in literature.
Emotions in literature.
Difference (Psychology) in literature.
American fiction.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS > American > General.
Roman americain > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Realisme dans la litterature.
Individualite dans la litterature.
American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Emotion on the Grid; 1. Howells, Sympathy, and the Problem of Scale; 2. Emotion and Representational Anxiety; 3. Backward Glances: The Search for Emotional Origins; 4. Cultivated Emotion: Race, the Body, and the Affectively Constituted Subject; 5. Competitive Feeling: Multifocal Fiction and Affective Blood Sport; Epilogue: The Work of Reinvention; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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