Affecting fictions : mind, body, and emotion in American literary realism / Jane F. Thrailkill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thrailkill, Jane F., 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--19th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

American fiction.

Human body in literature.

Emotions in literature.

Realism in literature.

Mind and body in literature.

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

United States--Intellectual life--19th century.

United States.

Intellectual life.

United States--Intellectual life--20th century.

Physical Description:

312 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.

Contents:

Introduction: The "Affective Fallacy" Fallacy 1

1 "The Zest, the Tingle, the Excitement of Reality" 28

2 Statistical Pity: Elsie Venner and the Controversy over Childbed Fever 54

3 Fear and Epistemology: Tracking the Train of Feeling in A Mortal Antipathy 84

4 Nervous Effort: Gilman, Crane, and the Psychophysical Pathologies of Everyday Life 117

5 "Mindless" Pleasure: Embodied Music in The Awakening and Theron Ware 155

6 Corporeal Wonder: The Occult Entrancements of The Wings of the Dove 201.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [253]-296) and index.

ISBN:

9780674025127

0674025121

OCLC:

85444114