Public Sentiments: Structures of Feeling in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

by Glenn Hendler

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0807826065

ISBN13:9780807826065

Release Date:April 2001

Publisher:University of North Carolina Press

Length:288 Pages

Weight:0.06 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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