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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910811972703321
• Autore: Hendler Glenn <1962->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2001
• ISBN: 979-88-908735-7-6; 0-8078-6022-0
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (287 p.)
• Disciplina: 813/.309353
• Soggetti: American literature - 19th century - History and criticism; Emotions in literature; Didactic fiction, American - History and criticism; Sentimentalism in literature; Sympathy in literature; Sex role in literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-268) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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