04003nam 2200685 450 991046382610332120200520144314.00-8203-4773-6(CKB)2670000000575108(SSID)ssj0001370621(PQKBManifestationID)11755619(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001370621(PQKBWorkID)11297788(PQKB)10123622(MiAaPQ)EBC1836114(OCoLC)895048553(MdBmJHUP)muse35629(Au-PeEL)EBL1836114(CaPaEBR)ebr10987034(CaONFJC)MIL660062(EXLCZ)99267000000057510820140829h20152015 uy| 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrApocalyptic sentimentalism love and fear in U.S. antebellum literature /Kevin PelletierAthens :University of Georgia Press,[2015]©20151 online resource (271 pages) illustrationsBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8203-3948-2 1-322-28782-1 Includes bibliographical references and index."In contrast to the prevailing scholarly con-sensus that understands sentimentality to be grounded on a logic of love and sympathy, Apocalyptic Sentimentalism demonstrates that in order for sentimentality to work as an antislavery engine, it needed to be linked to its seeming opposite--fear, especially the fear of God's wrath. Most antislavery reformers recognized that calls for love and sympathy or the representation of suffering slaves would not lead an audience to "feel right" or to actively oppose slavery. The threat of God's apocalyptic vengeance--and the terror that this threat inspired--functioned within the tradition of abolitionist sentimentality as a necessary goad for sympathy and love. Fear,then, was at the center of nineteenth-century sentimental strategies for inciting antislavery reform, bolstering love when love faltered, and operating as a powerful mechanism for establishing interracial sympathy. Depictions of God's apocalyptic vengeance constituted the most efficient strategy for antislavery writers to generate a sense of terror in their audience. Focusing on a range of important anti-slavery figures, including David Walker, Nat Turner, Maria Stewart, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and John Brown, Apocalyptic Sentimentalism illustrates how antislavery discourse worked to redefine violence and vengeance as the ultimate expression (rather than denial) of love and sympathy. At the sametime, these warnings of apocalyptic retribution enabled antislavery writers to express, albeit indirectly, fantasies of brutal violence against slaveholders. What began as a sentimental strategy quickly became an incendiary gesture, with antislavery reformers envisioning the complete annihilation of slaveholders and defenders of slavery"--Provided by publisher.American literature19th centuryHistory and criticismSlavery in literatureAntislavery movements in literatureApocalyptic literatureAfrican Americans in literatureEmotions in literatureLiterature and societyUnited StatesHistory19th centuryElectronic books.American literatureHistory and criticism.Slavery in literature.Antislavery movements in literature.Apocalyptic literature.African Americans in literature.Emotions in literature.Literature and societyHistory810.9/003Pelletier Kevin1975-960829MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463826103321Apocalyptic sentimentalism2178071UNINA