LEADER 05287nam 22007454 450 001 9910814571503321 005 20140827012636.0 010 $a0-8223-9800-1 024 7 $a10.1515/9780822398004 035 $a(CKB)3710000000229454 035 $a(OCoLC)893680756 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10927501 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001335744 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12518547 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001335744 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11288892 035 $a(PQKB)11637837 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3008048 035 $a(OCoLC)1139669961 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse78927 035 $a888943290 035 $a(DE-B1597)554537 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780822398004 035 $a(OCoLC)1170157561 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000229454 100 $a20140824d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSentimental collaborations $emourning and middle-class identity in nineteenth-century America /$fMary Louise Kete 210 1$aDurham :$cDuke University Press,$d2000. 215 $a1 online resource (303 p.) 225 1 $aNew Americanists 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8223-2471-7 311 $a1-322-11252-5 311 $a0-8223-2435-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [259]-273) and index. 327 $tIntroduction: The Forgotten Language of Sentimentality --$gPt. 1.$tThe "Language Which May Never Be Forgot"$g1.$tHarriet Gould's Book: Description and Provenance.$g2.$t"We Shore These Fragments against Our Ruin" --$gPt. 2.$tSentimental Collaborations: Mourning and the American self.$g3.$t"And Sister Sing the Song I Love": Circulation of the Self and Other within the Stasis of Lyric.$g4.$tThe Circulation of the Dead and the Making of the Self in the Novel --$gPt. 3.$tThe Competition of Sentimental Nationalisms: Lydia Sigourney and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.$g5.$tThe Competition of Sentimental Nationalisms.$g6.$tThe Other American Poets --$gPt. 4.$tMourning Sentimentality in Reconstruction-Era America: Mark Twain's Nostalgic Realism. 330 $aDuring the 1992 Democratic Convention and again while delivering Harvard University?s commencement address two years later, Vice President Al Gore shared with his audience a story that showed the effect of sentiment in his life. In telling how an accident involving his son had provided him with a revelation concerning the compassion of others, Gore effectively reconstructed himself as a typical, middle-class American for whom sympathy can lead to salvation. This contemporary reiteration of mid-nineteenth-century American sentimental discourse proves to be a fruitful point of departure for Mary Louise Kete?s argument that sentimentality has been an important and recurring form of cultural narrative that has helped to shape middle-class American life.Many scholars have written about the sentimental novel as a primarily female genre and have stressed its negative ideological aspects. Kete finds that in fact many men?from writers to politicians?participated in nineteenth-century sentimental culture. Importantly, she also recovers the utopian dimension of the phenomenon, arguing that literary sentimentality, specifically in the form of poetry, is the written trace of a broad cultural discourse that Kete calls ?sentimental collaboration??an exchange of sympathy in the form of gifts that establishes common cultural or intellectual ground. Kete reads the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Lydia Huntley Sigourney with an eye toward the deployment of sentimentality for the creation of Americanism, as well as for political and abolitionist ends. Finally, she locates the origins of sentimental collaboration in the activities of ordinary people who participated in mourning rituals?writing poetry, condolence letters, or epitaphs?to ease their personal grief.Sentimental Collaborations significantly advances prevailing scholarship on Romanticism, antebellum culture, and the formation of the American middle class. It will be of interest to scholars of American studies, American literature, cultural studies, and women?s studies. 410 0$aNew Americanists. 606 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aMourning customs in literature 606 $aMourning customs$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aMiddle class$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aSentimentalism in literature 606 $aGroup identity in literature 606 $aMiddle class in literature 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aMourning customs in literature. 615 0$aMourning customs$xHistory 615 0$aMiddle class$xHistory 615 0$aSentimentalism in literature. 615 0$aGroup identity in literature. 615 0$aMiddle class in literature. 676 $a810.9/355 700 $aKete$b Mary Louise$01678280 801 0$bNDD 801 1$bNDD 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910814571503321 996 $aSentimental collaborations$94045774 997 $aUNINA