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  1. Sentimentalism in Nineteenth-Century America
    Literary and Cultural Practices
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Fairleigh Dickinson, Lanham

    Tracing the eighteenth-century origins of sentimentalism, the collection illustrates its proliferation in nineteenth-century America. Sentimental writings by both sexes played a major role in the formation of middle-class culture and identity as... more

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    Tracing the eighteenth-century origins of sentimentalism, the collection illustrates its proliferation in nineteenth-century America. Sentimental writings by both sexes played a major role in the formation of middle-class culture and identity as sentimentalism interacted with developing ideals of domesticity, reform movements, and nationhood. Contributors explore motherhood, education, reform, loss and mourning, and the Civil War's explosion of the faith in universal feelings and ideas on which sentimentalism was based. ("Both sexes" is an impo...

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781611476057; 9781611476064 (Sekundärausgabe)
    RVK Categories: HT 1520 ; HT 1740
    Subjects: Literatur; Empfindsamkeit
    Scope: 244 p.
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  2. Sentimentalism in Nineteenth-Century America
    Literary and Cultural Practices
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Fairleigh Dickinson, Lanham

    Tracing the eighteenth-century origins of sentimentalism, the collection illustrates its proliferation in nineteenth-century America. Sentimental writings by both sexes played a major role in the formation of middle-class culture and identity as... more

    Universitätsbibliothek Erfurt / Forschungsbibliothek Gotha, Universitätsbibliothek Erfurt
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    Tracing the eighteenth-century origins of sentimentalism, the collection illustrates its proliferation in nineteenth-century America. Sentimental writings by both sexes played a major role in the formation of middle-class culture and identity as sentimentalism interacted with developing ideals of domesticity, reform movements, and nationhood. Contributors explore motherhood, education, reform, loss and mourning, and the Civil War's explosion of the faith in universal feelings and ideas on which sentimentalism was based. ("Both sexes" is an impo

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781611476057
    Subjects: American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Sentimentalism -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Sentimentalism in literature; American literature ; 19th century ; History and criticism; Sentimentalism ; United States ; History ; 19th century; Sentimentalism in literature; Electronic books
    Scope: Online-Ressource (244 p)
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    Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1: Rethinking Sentimental Motherhood; 1 "These Human Flowers"; 2 "The Medicine of Sympathy"; 3 The Ethics of Postbellum Melancholy in the Poetry of Sarah Piatt; 2: Reform and Sympathetic Identification; 4 "The Language of the Eye"; 5 Lydia Maria Child's Use of Sentimentalism in Letters from New-York; 6 Sympathetic Jo; 3: Loss, Death, Mourning, and Grief; 7 Desired and Imagined Loss as Sympathetic Identification; 8 The Collaborative Construction of a Death-Defying Cryptext; 9 "Such Verses for My Body Let Us Write"; 10 Psychological Sentimentalism

    AfterwordReferences; Index; About the Contributors