LEADER 03596nam 2200721 a 450 001 9910807483403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8232-4555-1 010 $a0-8232-5255-8 010 $a0-8232-5038-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823245550 035 $a(CKB)2670000000275475 035 $a(EBL)3239757 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000756880 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11390432 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000756880 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10753038 035 $a(PQKB)10439931 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000124822 035 $a(OCoLC)830023528 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse19482 035 $a(DE-B1597)555121 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823245550 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239757 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10611573 035 $a(OCoLC)823654789 035 $a(OCoLC)960750981 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4704533 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL818203 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239757 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1107660 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4704533 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000275475 100 $a20120726d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe sentimental touch $ethe language of feeling in the age of managerialism /$fAaron Ritzenberg 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cFordham University Press$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (191 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8232-4552-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aTouching the body, training the reader -- Managing sentimentalism in adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- Holding on to the sentimental in Winesburg, Ohio -- A touch of Miss Lonelyhearts. 330 $aBetween 1850 and 1940, with the rise of managerial capitalism in the United States, the most powerful businesses ceased to be family owned, instead becoming sprawling organizations controlled by complex bureaucracies. Sentimental literature?work written specifically to convey and inspire deep feeling?does not seem to fit with a swiftly bureaucratizing society. Surprisingly, though, sentimental language persisted in American literature, even as a culture of managed systems threatened to obscure the power of individual affect.The Sentimental Touch explores the strange, enduring power of sentimental language in the face of a rapidly changing culture. Analyzing novels by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, Sherwood Anderson, and Nathanael West, the book demonstrates that sentimental language changes but remains powerful, even in works by authors who self-consciously write against the sentimental tradition. Sentimental language has an afterlife, enduring in American literature long after authors and critics declared it dead, insisting that human feeling can resist a mechanizing culture and embodying, paradoxically, the way that literary conventions themselves become mechanical and systematic. 606 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEmotions in literature 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEmotions in literature. 676 $a810.9/353 700 $aRitzenberg$b Aaron$01642276 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807483403321 996 $aThe sentimental touch$93986878 997 $aUNINA