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The Culture of Sentiment: Race, Gender, and Sentimentality in 19th-Century America

By Shirley Samuels

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
1992
ISBN
0195063546, 9780195063547, 9781423764281, 9780195362527
LCC
PS217.S55 C85 1992
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
27 MB (28705913 bytes)
Pages
360\358
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07
Культурология;История культуры;История культуры СШ

Description

Samuels's collection of critical essays gives body and scope to the subject of nineteenth-century sentimentality by situating it in terms of "women's culture" and issues of race. Presenting an interdisciplinary range of approaches that consider sentimental culture before and after the Civil War, these critical studies of American literature and culture fundamentally reorient the field. Moving beyond alignment with either pro- or anti-sentimentality camps, the collection makes visible the particular racial and gendered forms that define the aesthetics and politics of the culture of sentiment. Drawing on the fields of American cultural history, American studies, and literary criticism, the contributors include Lauren Berlant, Ann Fabian, Susan Gillman, Karen Halttunen, Carolyn L. Karcher, Joy Kasson, Amy Schrager Lang, Isabelle Lehuu, Harryette Mullen, Dana Nelson, Lora Romero, Shirley Samuels, Karen Sanchez-Eppler, Lynn Wardley, and Laura Wexler.

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