Sentimentalism in nineteenth-century America: literary and cultural practices
2013; Association of College and Research Libraries; Volume: 51; Issue: 03 Linguagem: Inglês
10.5860/choice.51-1347
ISSN1943-5975
Autores Tópico(s)Poetry Analysis and Criticism
ResumoIntroduction, Mary De Jong Part One: Rethinking Sentimental Motherhood 1.These Human Flowers: Sentimentalizing Children and Fashioning Maternal Authority in Godey's Lady's Book, Kara Clevinger 2.The Medicine of Sympathy: Maternal Affective Pedagogy in Antebellum America, Ken Parille 3.The Ethics of Postbellum Melancholy in the Poetry of Sarah Piatt, D. Zachary Finch Part Two: The Politics of Sentimentality 4.The Language of the Eye: Communication and Sentimental Benevolence in Lydia Sigourney's Poems and Essays about the Deaf, Elizabeth Petrino 5.Lydia Maria Child's Use of Sentimentalism in Letters from New-York, Susan Toth Lord 6.Sympathetic Jo: Tomboyism, Poverty, and Race in Alcott's Little Women, Kristen Proehl Part Three: Loss, Death, Mourning and Grief 7.Desired and Imagined Loss as Sympathetic Identification: Bachelor Melancholia in Donald Grant Mitchell's Reveries of a Bachelor, Maglina Lubovich 8.The Collaborative Construction of a Death-Defying Cryptext: Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, Adam Bradford 9.Such Verses for My Body Let Us Write: Civil War Song, Sentimentalism, and Whitman's Drum-Taps, Robert Arbour 10.Psychological Sentimentalism: Consciousness, Affect, and the Sentimental Henry James, George Gordon-Smith Afterword, Mary Louise Kete Works Cited Contributors
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