The plight of feeling [[electronic resource] ] : sympathy and dissent in the early American novel / / Julia A. Stern

• Autore: Stern Julia A
• Pubblicazione: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 1997
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (324 p.)
• Disciplina: 813/.309
• Soggetto topico: American fiction - 18th century - History and criticism; Politics and literature - United States - History - 18th century; Psychological fiction, American - History and criticism; Dissenters in literature; Emotions in literature; Sympathy in literature
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-291) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: American 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The plight of feeling
• ISBN: 1-281-43067-6; 0-226-77309-4; 9786611430672
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910458606603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II