The sentimental touch : the language of feeling in the age of managerialism / / Aaron Ritzenberg

• Autore: Ritzenberg Aaron
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Fordham University Press, c2013
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (191 p.)
• Disciplina: 810.9/353
• Soggetto topico: American literature - 19th century - History and criticism; American literature - 20th century - History and criticism; Emotions in literature
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Touching 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: Between 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The sentimental touch
• ISBN: 0-8232-4555-1; 0-8232-5255-8; 0-8232-5038-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910807483403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II