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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hendler, Glenn, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--19th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

Emotions in literature.

Didactic fiction, American--History and criticism.

Didactic fiction, American.

Sentimentalism in literature.

Sympathy in literature.

Sex role in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this book, 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. For these nineteenth-century writers, he argues, sympathetic identification was not strictly an individual, feminizing, and private feeling but the quintessentially public sentiment--a transformative emotion with the power to shape social institutions and political movements.Uniting current scholarship on gender in nineteenth-century A

Contents:

Acknowledgments; Introduction: Structures of Feeling in Nineteenth-Century America; Part I. Institutions of the Public Sphere; 1. Sentimental Experience; 2. Citizenship & Civility; 3. Pandering in the Public Sphere; Part II. Performing Publicity; 4. An Unequaled System of Publicity; 5. Publicity is Personal; 6. Growing Up in Public; Coda: Toward a History of Identification; Notes; Notes; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-268) and index.

ISBN:

9798890873576

9780807860229

0807860220

OCLC:

476268577