LEADER 04003nam 2200685 450 001 9910463826103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8203-4773-6 035 $a(CKB)2670000000575108 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001370621 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11755619 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001370621 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11297788 035 $a(PQKB)10123622 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1836114 035 $a(OCoLC)895048553 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse35629 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1836114 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10987034 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL660062 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000575108 100 $a20140829h20152015 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aApocalyptic sentimentalism $elove and fear in U.S. antebellum literature /$fKevin Pelletier 210 1$aAthens :$cUniversity of Georgia Press,$d[2015] 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (271 pages) $cillustrations 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8203-3948-2 311 $a1-322-28782-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $a"In contrast to the prevailing scholarly con-sensus that understands sentimentality to be grounded on a logic of love and sympathy, Apocalyptic Sentimentalism demonstrates that in order for sentimentality to work as an antislavery engine, it needed to be linked to its seeming opposite--fear, especially the fear of God's wrath. Most antislavery reformers recognized that calls for love and sympathy or the representation of suffering slaves would not lead an audience to "feel right" or to actively oppose slavery. The threat of God's apocalyptic vengeance--and the terror that this threat inspired--functioned within the tradition of abolitionist sentimentality as a necessary goad for sympathy and love. Fear,then, was at the center of nineteenth-century sentimental strategies for inciting antislavery reform, bolstering love when love faltered, and operating as a powerful mechanism for establishing interracial sympathy. Depictions of God's apocalyptic vengeance constituted the most efficient strategy for antislavery writers to generate a sense of terror in their audience. Focusing on a range of important anti-slavery figures, including David Walker, Nat Turner, Maria Stewart, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and John Brown, Apocalyptic Sentimentalism illustrates how antislavery discourse worked to redefine violence and vengeance as the ultimate expression (rather than denial) of love and sympathy. At the sametime, these warnings of apocalyptic retribution enabled antislavery writers to express, albeit indirectly, fantasies of brutal violence against slaveholders. What began as a sentimental strategy quickly became an incendiary gesture, with antislavery reformers envisioning the complete annihilation of slaveholders and defenders of slavery"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aSlavery in literature 606 $aAntislavery movements in literature 606 $aApocalyptic literature 606 $aAfrican Americans in literature 606 $aEmotions in literature 606 $aLiterature and society$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aSlavery in literature. 615 0$aAntislavery movements in literature. 615 0$aApocalyptic literature. 615 0$aAfrican Americans in literature. 615 0$aEmotions in literature. 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 676 $a810.9/003 700 $aPelletier$b Kevin$f1975-$0960829 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463826103321 996 $aApocalyptic sentimentalism$92178071 997 $aUNINA