LEADER 04365nam 2200745 a 450 001 9910784894703321 005 20210604031019.0 010 $a1-281-43067-6 010 $a0-226-77309-4 010 $a9786611430672 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226773094 035 $a(CKB)1000000000400038 035 $a(EBL)408567 035 $a(OCoLC)476229660 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000222762 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11173260 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000222762 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10174338 035 $a(PQKB)11683816 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC408567 035 $a(DE-B1597)535760 035 $a(OCoLC)824145593 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226773094 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL408567 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10230070 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL143067 035 $a(iGPub)UCHIB0000591 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000400038 100 $a19970411d1997 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe plight of feeling$b[electronic resource] $esympathy and dissent in the early American novel /$fJulia A. Stern 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d1997 215 $a1 online resource (324 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-226-77311-6 311 0 $a0-226-77310-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 239-291) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tONE. The Plight of Feeling --$tTWO. Working through the Frame: The Dream of Transparency in Charlotte Temple --$tTHREE. Beyond "A Play about Words": Tyrannies of Voice in The Coquette --$tFOUR. A Lady Who Sheds No Tears: Liberty, Contagion, and the Demise of Fraternity in Ormond --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aAmerican 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. 606 $aAmerican fiction$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPolitics and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aPsychological fiction, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aDissenters in literature 606 $aEmotions in literature 606 $aSympathy in literature 610 $aemotion, sensation, affect theory, american revolution, literature, theatricality, passion, excess, sentimental novels, sentiment, melodrama, gothic, republic, hate, anger, fear, grief, federalism, mourning, violence, death, war, liberty, freedom, marginalized communities, women, gender, native americans, indigenous, racism, discrimination, poverty, wealth, class, slavery, african-american, counternarratives, nation-building, national identity, legitimacy, authority, nonfiction, narrative, genre, dissent, charlotte temple, coquette, ormond. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPolitics and literature$xHistory 615 0$aPsychological fiction, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aDissenters in literature. 615 0$aEmotions in literature. 615 0$aSympathy in literature. 676 $a813/.309 700 $aStern$b Julia A$01474900 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910784894703321 996 $aThe plight of feeling$93688835 997 $aUNINA