04365nam 2200745 a 450 991078489470332120210604031019.01-281-43067-60-226-77309-4978661143067210.7208/9780226773094(CKB)1000000000400038(EBL)408567(OCoLC)476229660(SSID)ssj0000222762(PQKBManifestationID)11173260(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000222762(PQKBWorkID)10174338(PQKB)11683816(MiAaPQ)EBC408567(DE-B1597)535760(OCoLC)824145593(DE-B1597)9780226773094(Au-PeEL)EBL408567(CaPaEBR)ebr10230070(CaONFJC)MIL143067(iGPub)UCHIB0000591(EXLCZ)99100000000040003819970411d1997 uy 0engurun#---|u||utxtccrThe plight of feeling[electronic resource] sympathy and dissent in the early American novel /Julia A. SternChicago University of Chicago Press19971 online resource (324 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-226-77311-6 0-226-77310-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-291) and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --ONE. The Plight of Feeling --TWO. Working through the Frame: The Dream of Transparency in Charlotte Temple --THREE. Beyond "A Play about Words": Tyrannies of Voice in The Coquette --FOUR. A Lady Who Sheds No Tears: Liberty, Contagion, and the Demise of Fraternity in Ormond --Notes --IndexAmerican novels written in the wake of the Revolution overflow with self-conscious theatricality and impassioned excess. In The Plight of Feeling, Julia A. Stern shows that these sentimental, melodramatic, and gothic works can be read as an emotional history of the early republic, reflecting the hate, anger, fear, and grief that tormented the Federalist era. Stern argues that these novels gave voice to a collective mourning over the violence of the Revolution and the foreclosure of liberty for the nation's noncitizens-women, the poor, Native and African Americans. Properly placed in the context of late eighteenth-century thought, the republican novel emerges as essentially political, offering its audience gothic and feminized counternarratives to read against the dominant male-authored accounts of national legitimation. Drawing upon insights from cultural history and gender studies as well as psychoanalytic, narrative, and genre theory, Stern convincingly exposes the foundation of the republic as an unquiet crypt housing those invisible Americans who contributed to its construction.American fiction18th centuryHistory and criticismPolitics and literatureUnited StatesHistory18th centuryPsychological fiction, AmericanHistory and criticismDissenters in literatureEmotions in literatureSympathy in literatureemotion, sensation, affect theory, american revolution, literature, theatricality, passion, excess, sentimental novels, sentiment, melodrama, gothic, republic, hate, anger, fear, grief, federalism, mourning, violence, death, war, liberty, freedom, marginalized communities, women, gender, native americans, indigenous, racism, discrimination, poverty, wealth, class, slavery, african-american, counternarratives, nation-building, national identity, legitimacy, authority, nonfiction, narrative, genre, dissent, charlotte temple, coquette, ormond.American fictionHistory and criticism.Politics and literatureHistoryPsychological fiction, AmericanHistory and criticism.Dissenters in literature.Emotions in literature.Sympathy in literature.813/.309Stern Julia A1474900MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784894703321The plight of feeling3688835UNINA