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  1. Sentimental readers
    the rise, fall, and revival of a disparaged rhetoric
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Univ. of Iowa Press, Iowa City

    Universitätsbibliothek Erlangen-Nürnberg, Hauptbibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781609381868; 1609381866; 9781609382100; 1609382102
    Subjects: Sentimentalism in literature; Narration (Rhetoric); Rezeption; Literatur; Rhetorik; Sentimentalität; Leser
    Scope: XXII, 215 S., 23 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-209) and index

  2. Sentimental readers
    the rise, fall, and revival of a disparaged rhetoric
    Published: [2013]; © 2013
    Publisher:  University of Iowa Press, Iowa City

    Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, Bibliothek
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781609382100; 9781609381868
    Subjects: Literatur; Literature; Sentimentalism in literature; Rezeption; Sentimentalität; Leser; Rhetorik; Literatur
    Scope: 1 online resource (240 pages)
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    Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 26, 2013)

  3. Sentimental readers
    the rise, fall, and revival of a disparaged rhetoric
    Published: [2013]; © 2013
    Publisher:  University of Iowa Press, Iowa City

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781609381868
    RVK Categories: HT 1075 ; HT 1100 ; HT 1110 ; HT 1691 ; HT 1818 ; EC 1868
    Subjects: Sentimentalism in literature; Narration (Rhetoric)
    Scope: xxii, 215 Seiten, 23 cm
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    Enthält Literaturverzeichnis auf Seite 197-209

  4. Sentimental Readers
    The Rise, Fall, and Revival of a Disparaged Rhetoric
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  University of Iowa Press, Iowa City

    How could novels like Uncle Tom's Cabin change the hearts and minds of thousands of mid-nineteenth-century readers, yet make so many modern readers cringe at their over-the-top, tear-filled scenes? Sentimental Readers explains why sentimental... more

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    How could novels like Uncle Tom's Cabin change the hearts and minds of thousands of mid-nineteenth-century readers, yet make so many modern readers cringe at their over-the-top, tear-filled scenes? Sentimental Readers explains why sentimental rhetoric was so compelling to readers of that earlier era, why its popularity waned in the latter part of the nineteenth century, and why today it is generally characterized as overly emotional and artificial. But author Faye Halpern also does more: she demonstrates that this now despised rhetoric remains relevant to contemporary writing teachers and lite

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781609381868
    Subjects: Sentimentalism in literature; Electronic books
    Scope: Online-Ressource (240 p)
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    Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The How of Sentimentality; 1. Edward Tyrrel Channing and the Matter of Disingenuous Eloquence; 2. Why We Should Trust Harriet Beecher Stowe; 3. The Art of Character in Louisa May Alcott's Work; 4. Henry Ward Beecher and the Fall of the Sentimental Orator; 5. In Defense of Reading Badly; 6. The Problem with Being a Good Reader of Sentimental Rhetoric; Appendix; Notes; Works Cited; Index