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"In this chronicle of the role of sympathy in American literature and culture from the colonial period to the Gilded Age, Boudreau shows how the sentiment of fellow-feeling was repeatedly recruited at moments of national and personal crisis.".
"Unlike many treatments of attachment and sentimentality, this book avoids positing either the radical or the conservative account of sympathy. Drawing on a range of texts from John Winthrop's 1630 "Model of Christian Charity" to William James's 1902 Varieties of Religious Experience, the work explores the entire complicated legacy of sympathy in American culture.
In examining what she calls the "cultural fiction" of consanguinity, or shared blood, the author illuminates both its possibilities for soothing social and political divisions as well as its social and psychological costs. In one of the few books to trace the influence of writers of the Early Republic on antebellum sentimental works, Boudreau offers an array of examples from inside and outside the canon to illustrate that sentimental culture did not end with the Civil War."--BOOK JACKET.
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American literature, Emotions in literature, History and criticism, National characteristics, American, in literature, Sentimentalism in literature, Slavery in literature, Social problems in literature, Sympathy in literature, Caractère national américain, Sklaverei, Literatur, Dans la littérature, Sentiments, Mitleid, Nächstenliebe, Littérature américaine, Histoire et critique, Geschichte 1800-1900, American literature, history and criticismEdition | Availability |
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Sympathy in American literature: American sentiments from Jefferson to the Jameses
2002, University Press of Florida
in English
0813024331 9780813024332
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-239) and index.
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