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Author : Cindy Weinstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780511264955
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (649 download)
Download or read book Family, Kinship, and Sympathy in Nineteenth-century American Literature written by Cindy Weinstein and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marianne Noble
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108481337
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Rethinking Sympathy and Human Contact in Nineteenth-Century American Literature written by Marianne Noble and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book analyzes the evolution of antebellum literary explorations of sympathy and human contact in the 1850s and 1860s. It will appeal to undergraduates and scholars seeking new approaches to canonical American authors, psychological theorists of sympathy and empathy, and philosophers of moral philosophy.
Author : Justine S. Murison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139497634
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book The Politics of Anxiety in Nineteenth-Century American Literature written by Justine S. Murison and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-21 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For much of the nineteenth century, the nervous system was a medical mystery, inspiring scientific studies and exciting great public interest. Because of this widespread fascination, the nerves came to explain the means by which mind and body related to each other. By the 1830s, the nervous system helped Americans express the consequences on the body, and for society, of major historical changes. Literary writers, including Nathaniel Hawthorne and Harriet Beecher Stowe, used the nerves as a metaphor to re-imagine the role of the self amidst political, social and religious tumults, including debates about slavery and the revivals of the Second Great Awakening. Representing the 'romance' of the nervous system and its cultural impact thoughtfully and, at times, critically, the fictional experiments of this century helped construct and explore a neurological vision of the body and mind. Murison explains the impact of neurological medicine on nineteenth-century literature and culture.
Author : Russ Castronovo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199355894
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century American Literature written by Russ Castronovo and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century American Literature will offer a cutting-edge assessment of the period's literature, offering readers practical insights and proactive strategies for exploring novels, poems, and other literary creations.
Author : Juliana Chow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108845711
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Discourse of Natural History written by Juliana Chow and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses how literary writers re-envisioned species survival and racial uplift through ecological and biogeographical concepts of dispersal. It will appeal to readers interested in nineteenth-Century American literature and Literature and the Environment.
Author : Kerry Larson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107321212
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Imagining Equality in Nineteenth-Century American Literature written by Kerry Larson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theme of inequality has often dominated academic criticism, which has been concerned with identifying, analyzing, and demystifying various regimes of power and the illicit hierarchies upon which they are built. Studies of the United States in the nineteenth century have followed this trend in focusing on slavery, women's writing, and working-class activism. Kerry Larson advocates the importance of looking instead at equality as a central theme, viewing it not as an endangered ideal to strive for and protect but as an imagined social reality in its own right, one with far-reaching consequences. In this original study, he reads the literature of the pre-Civil War United States against Tocqueville's theories of equality. Imagining Equality tests these theories in the work of a broad array of authors and genres, both canonical and non-canonical, and in doing so discovers important themes in Stowe, Hawthorne, Douglass and Alcott.
Author : Hsuan L. Hsu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521197066
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)
Download or read book Geography and the Production of Space in Nineteenth-Century American Literature written by Hsuan L. Hsu and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-06 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how literature represents different kinds of spaces, from the single-family home to the globe. It focuses on how nineteenth-century authors drew on literary tools including rhetoric, setting, and point of view to mediate between individuals and different spaces, and re-examines how local spaces were incorporated into global networks.
Author : Dale M. Bauer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108486541
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Nineteenth-Century American Women's Serial Novels written by Dale M. Bauer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recovers the careers of four US women serial writers, and establishes a new archive for American literary studies.
Author : Mary G. De Jong
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson
ISBN 13 : 1611476062
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)
Download or read book Sentimentalism in Nineteenth-Century America written by Mary G. De Jong and published by Fairleigh Dickinson. This book was released on 2013-06-07 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the eighteenth-century origins of sentimentalism, the collection illustrates its proliferation in nineteenth-century America. Contributors explore motherhood, education, reform, loss and mourning, and the Civil War’s explosion of the faith in universal feelings and ideas on which sentimentalism was based.
Author : Mary Grace Albanese
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009314254
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Black Women and Energies of Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Haitian and American Literature written by Mary Grace Albanese and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-23 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Women and Energies of Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Haitian and American Literature intervenes in traditional narratives of 19th-century American modernity by situating Black women at the center of an increasingly connected world. While traditional accounts of modernity have emphasized advancements in communication technologies, animal and fossil fuel extraction, and the rise of urban centers, Mary Grace Albanese proposes that women of African descent combated these often violent regimes through diasporic spiritual beliefs and practices, including spiritual possession, rootwork, midwifery, mesmerism, prophecy, and wandering. It shows how these energetic acts of resistance were carried out on scales large and small: from the constrained corners of the garden plot to the expansive circuits of global migration. By examining the concept of energy from narratives of technological progress, capital accrual and global expansion, this book uncovers new stories that center Black women at the heart of a pulsating, revolutionary world.
Author : Jessica DeSpain
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317087259
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Reprinting and the Embodied Book written by Jessica DeSpain and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until the Chace Act in 1891, no international copyright law existed between Britain and the United States, which meant publishers were free to edit text, excerpt whole passages, add new illustrations, and substantially redesign a book's appearance. In spite of this ongoing process of transatlantic transformation of texts, the metaphor of the book as a physical embodiment of its author persisted. Jessica DeSpain's study of this period of textual instability examines how the physical book acted as a major form of cultural exchange between Britain and the United States that called attention to volatile texts and the identities they manifested. Focusing on four influential works”Charles Dickens's American Notes for General Circulation, Susan Warner's The Wide, Wide World, Fanny Kemble's Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation, and Walt Whitman's Democratic Vistas”DeSpain shows that for authors, readers, and publishers struggling with the unpredictability of the textual body, the physical book and the physical body became interchangeable metaphors of flux. At the same time, discourses of destabilized bodies inflected issues essential to transatlantic culture, including class, gender, religion, and slavery, while the practice of reprinting challenged the concepts of individual identity, personal property, and national identity.
Author : Patricia Crain
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812247965
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Reading Children written by Patricia Crain and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-06-13 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading Children offers a history of the relationship between children and books in Anglo-American modernity, exploring early children's literature, pedagogical practices, property lessons inherent in children's book ownership, and the emergence of childhood itself as a literary property.
Author : Dorri Beam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139489232
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Style, Gender, and Fantasy in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing written by Dorri Beam and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this 2010 book, Dorri Beam presents an important contribution to nineteenth-century fiction by examining how and why a florid and sensuous style came to be adopted by so many authors. Discussing a diverse range of authors, including Margaret Fuller and Pauline Hopkins, Beam traces this style through a variety of literary endeavors and reconstructs the political rationale behind the writers' commitments to this form of prose. Beam provides both close readings of a number of familiar and unfamiliar works and an overarching account of the importance of this form of writing, suggesting new ways of looking at style as a medium through which gender can be signified and reshaped. Style, Gender, and Fantasy in Nineteenth Century American Women's Writing redefines our understanding of women's relation to aesthetics and their contribution to both American literary romanticism and feminist reform. This illuminating account provides valuable new insights for scholars of American literature and women's writing.
Author : Maria Windell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198862334
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)
Download or read book Transamerican Sentimentalism and Nineteenth Century US Literary History written by Maria Windell and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-07-09 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sentimentalism is usually studied through US-British relations after the American Revolution or in connection to national reforms like the abolitionist movement. Transamerican Sentimentalism and Nineteenth-Century US Literary History instead argues that African American, Native American, Latinx, and Anglo American women writers also used sentimentalism to construct narratives that reframed or countered the violence dominating the nineteenth-century Americas, including the Haitian Revolution, Indian Removal, the US-Mexican War, and Cuba's independence wars. By tracking the transformation of sentimentalism as the US reacted to, enacted, and intervened in conflict Transamerican Sentimentalism and Nineteenth-Century US Literary History demonstrates how marginalized writers negotiated hemispheric encounters amidst the gendered, racialized, and cultural violence of the nineteenth-century Americas. It remaps sentiment's familiar transatlantic and national scholarly frameworks through authors such as Leonora Sansay and Mary Peabody Mann, and considers how authors including John Rollin Ridge, John S. and Harriet Jacobs, Mar�a Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Victor S�jour, and Martin R. Delany adapted the mode. Transamerican sentimentalism cannot unseat the violence of the nineteenth-century Americas, but it does produce other potential outcomes-including new paradigms for understanding the coquette, a locally successful informal diplomacy, and motivations for violent slave revolt. Such transformations mark not sentiment's failures or distortions, but its adaptive attempts to survive and thrive.
Author : Silvia Schultermandl
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000390985
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Ambivalent Transnational Belonging in American Literature written by Silvia Schultermandl and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-16 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ambivalent Transnational Belonging in American Literature discusses the extent to which transnational concepts of identity and community are cast within nationalist frameworks. It analyzes how the different narrative perspectives in texts by Olaudah Equiano, Catharina Maria Sedgwick, Henry James, Jamaica Kincaid, and Mohsin Hamid shape protagonists’ complex transnational subjectivities, which exist between or outside national frameworks but are nevertheless interpellated through the nation-state and through particular myths about liberal, sentimental, or cosmopolitan subjects. The notion of ambivalent transnational belonging yields insights into the affective appeal of the transnational as a category of analysis, as an aesthetic experience, and as an idea of belonging. This means bringing the transnational into conversation with the aesthetic and the affective so we may fully address the new conceptual challenges faced by literary studies due to the transnational turn in American studies.
Author : Jennifer A. Williamson
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813562996
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)
Download or read book Twentieth-Century Sentimentalism written by Jennifer A. Williamson and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-15 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today’s critical establishment assumes that sentimentalism is an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literary mode that all but disappeared by the twentieth century. In this book, Jennifer Williamson argues that sentimentalism is alive and well in the modern era. By examining working-class literature that adopts the rhetoric of “feeling right” in order to promote a proletarian or humanist ideology as well as neo-slave narratives that wrestle with the legacy of slavery and cultural definitions of African American families, she explores the ways contemporary authors engage with familiar sentimental clichés and ideals. Williamson covers new ground by examining authors who are not generally read for their sentimental narrative practices, considering the proletarian novels of Grace Lumpkin, Josephine Johnson, and John Steinbeck alongside neo-slave narratives written by Margaret Walker, Octavia Butler, and Toni Morrison. Through careful close readings, Williamson argues that the appropriation of sentimental modes enables both sympathetic thought and systemic action in the proletarian and neo-slave novels under discussion. She contrasts appropriations that facilitate such cultural work with those that do not, including Kathryn Stockett’s novel and film The Help. The book outlines how sentimentalism remains a viable and important means of promoting social justice while simultaneously recognizing and exploring how sentimentality can further white privilege. Sentimentalism is not only alive in the twentieth century. It is a flourishing rhetorical practice among a range of twentieth-century authors who use sentimental tactics in order to appeal to their readers about a range of social justice issues. This book demonstrates that at stake in their appeals is who is inside and outside of the American family and nation.
Author : Jamin Creed Rowan
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812249291
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book The Sociable City written by Jamin Creed Rowan and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-07-03 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sociable City chronicles how, as the city's physical and social landscapes evolved over the course of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, urban intellectuals developed new vocabularies, narratives, and representational forms to explore and advocate for the social configurations made possible by urban living.
