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Focusing on the genre of poetry, Kete argues that sentimentality functioned within the American Romantic period as a mode by which subjects fashioned a system of values which tended to define middle-class in the19th century.
Author : Mary Louise Kete
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,6 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822324713
Focusing on the genre of poetry, Kete argues that sentimentality functioned within the American Romantic period as a mode by which subjects fashioned a system of values which tended to define middle-class in the19th century.
Author : Mary Louise Kete
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,29 MB
Release : 2007-08
Category :
ISBN : 9781422366271
Sentimentality (SM) has been a recurring form of cultural narrative that has helped to shape middle-class Amer life. Literary SM, in the form of poetry, is the written trace of a broad cultural discourse that Kete calls ¿sentimental collaboration¿ (SC) -- an exchange of sympathy in the form of gifts that estab. common cultural or intellectual ground. She reads the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, & Lydia Huntley Sigourney with an eye toward the deployment of SM for the creation of Americ¿m., as well as for political & abolitionist ends. The origins of SC are in the activities of people who participated in mourning rituals -- writing poetry, condolence letters, or epitaphs -- to ease their personal grief. Ill.
Author : Aaron Ritzenberg
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 47,84 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0823245527
The Sentimental Touch' explores the strange, enduring power of sentimental language in the face of a rapidly changing culture.
Author : Peter Messent
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 11,90 MB
Release : 2009-10-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0199736804
This book explores male friendship in America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries through Mark Twain and the relationships he had with William Dean Howells, Joseph Twichell, and Henry H. Rogers.
Author : Elke Brüggen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 43,65 MB
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 311138182X
Given that strong asymmetrical dependencies have shaped human societies throughout history, this kind of social relation has also left its traces in many types of texts. Using written and oral narratives in attempts to reconstruct the history of asymmetrical dependency comes along with various methodological challenges, as the 15 articles in this interdisciplinary volume illustrate. They focus on a wide range of different (factual and fictional) text types, including inscriptions from Egyptian tombs, biblical stories, novels from antiquity, the Middle High German Rolandslied, Ottoman court records, captivity narratives, travelogues, the American gift book The Liberty Bell, and oral narratives by Caribbean Hindu women. Most of the texts discussed in this volume have so far received comparatively little attention in slavery and dependency studies. The volume thus also seeks to broaden the archive of texts that are deemed relevant in research on the histories of asymmetrical dependencies, bringing together perspectives from disciplines such as Egyptology, theology, literary studies, history, and anthropology
Author : Pia Wiegmink
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 39,7 MB
Release : 2022-09-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004521100
The Dictionary of Greek and Latin Authors and Texts gives a clear overview of authors and Major Works of Greek and Latin literature, and their history in written tradition, from Late Antiquity until present: papyri, manuscripts, Scholia, early and contemporary authoritative editions, translations and comments.
Author : Joseph Stubenrauch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 11,67 MB
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 019878337X
It demonstrates that developments in technology, commerce, and infrastructure in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were closely linked to theological shifts and changing modes of religious life as British evangelicals developed new methods of spreading the gospel and new forms of personal religious practice.
Author : Paula Bennett
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 50,82 MB
Release : 2003-04-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691026442
Based entirely on archival research, Poets in the Public Sphere traces the emergence of the "New Woman" by examining poetry published by American women in newspapers and magazines between 1800 and 1900. Using sources like the Kentucky Reporter, the Cherokee Phoenix, the Cincinnati Israelite, and the Atlantic Monthly, Bennett is able to track how U.S. women from every race, class, caste, region, and religion exploited the freedom offered by the nation's periodical press, especially the poetry columns, to engage in heated debate with each other and with men over matters of mutual concern. Far from restricting their poems to the domestic and personal, these women addressed a significant array of political issues--abolition, Indian removals, economic and racial injustice, the Civil War, and, not least, their own changing status as civil subjects. Overflowing with a wealth of heretofore untapped information, their poems demonstrate conclusively that "ordinary" nineteenth-century women were far more influenced by the women's rights movement than historians have allowed. In showing how these women turned the sentimental and ideologically saturated conventions of the period's verse to their own ends, Bennett argues passionately and persuasively for poetry's power as cultural and political discourse. As much women's history as literary history, this book invites readers to rethink not only the role that nineteenth-century women played in their own emancipation but the role that poetry plays in cultural life.
Author : Alfred Bendixen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 10,75 MB
Release : 2014-11-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1118917480
Featuring 37 essays by distinguished literary scholars, A Companion to the American Novel provides a comprehensive single-volume treatment of the development of the novel in the United States from the late 18th century to the present day. Represents the most comprehensive single-volume introduction to this popular literary form currently available Features 37 contributions from a wide range of distinguished literary scholars Includes essays on topics and genres, historical overviews, and key individual works, including The Scarlet Letter, Moby Dick, The Great Gatsby, Beloved, and many more.
Author : Christoph Irmscher
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 43,44 MB
Release : 2014-02-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1611476747
Reconsidering Longfellow is the first collection of scholarly essays in several decades devoted entirely to the work and afterlife of the most popular and widely read writer in American literature. The essays, written by a new generation of Longfellow scholars, cover the entire range of Longfellow’s work, from the early poetry to the wildly successful epics of his middle period (Evangeline, The Song of Hiawatha) to his Chaucerian collection of stories published after the Civil War, Tales of a Wayside Inn. Separate contributions discuss Longfellow’s financial dealings, his preoccupation with his children, and his interest in the visual arts, as well as the tremendous role his poetry did and will once again play in American literature classrooms in the U.S. All essays were written specifically for the volume. Many of them rely on unpublished archival sources from the Longfellow collections at the Longfellow House-George Washington National Historic Site and at Houghton Library in Cambridge, Massachusetts.