Public Sentiments

Public Sentiments
Author :
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages : 288
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780807860229
ISBN-13 : 0807860220
Rating : 4/5 (220 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Public Sentiments by : Glenn Hendler

Download or read book Public Sentiments written by Glenn Hendler and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-04-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Glenn Hendler explores what he calls the "logic of sympathy" in novels by Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, T. S. Arthur, Martin Delany, Horatio Alger, Fanny Fern, Nathaniel Parker Willis, Henry James, Mark Twain, and William Dean Howells. For these nineteenth-century writers, he argues, sympathetic identification was not strictly an individual, feminizing, and private feeling but the quintessentially public sentiment--a transformative emotion with the power to shape social institutions and political movements. Uniting current scholarship on gender in nineteenth-century American culture with historical and theoretical debates on the definition of the public sphere in the period, Hendler shows how novels taught diverse readers to "feel right," to experience their identities as male or female, black or white, middle or working class, through a sentimental, emotionally based structure of feeling. He links novels with such wide-ranging cultural and political discourses as the temperance movement, feminism, and black nationalism. Public Sentiments demonstrates that, whether published for commercial reasons or for higher moral and aesthetic purposes, the nineteenth-century American novel was conceived of as a public instrument designed to play in a sentimental key.


Public Sentiments Related Books

Public Sentiments
Language: en
Pages: 288
Authors: Glenn Hendler
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-04-03 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In this book, Glenn Hendler explores what he calls the "logic of sympathy" in novels by Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, T. S. Arthur, Martin Delany, Horatio Al
Public Sentiments
Language: en
Pages: 292
Authors: Glenn Hendler
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Explores "logic of sympathy" in novels by Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, T.S. Arthur, Martin Delany, Horatio Alger, Fanny Fern, Nathaniel Parker Willis, Henry
The Dynamics of Public Opinion
Language: en
Pages: 83
Authors: Mary Layton Atkinson
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-11-11 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A central question in political representation is whether government responds to the people. To understand that, we need to know what the government is doing, a
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Language: en
Pages: 636
Authors: Adam Smith (économiste)
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 1812 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Public Opinion
Language: en
Pages: 448
Authors: Walter Lippmann
Categories: Public opinion
Type: BOOK - Published: 1922 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In what is widely considered the most influential book ever written by Walter Lippmann, the late journalist and social critic provides a fundamental treatise on