Rethinking Sympathy and Human Contact in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: Hawthorne, Douglass, Stowe, Dickinson
(Part of the Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series)
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In accessible and impassioned discussions of literature and philosophy, this book reveals a surprising approach to the intractable problem of human contact. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Emily Dickinson rethought the nature of human contact, turning away from transcendentalist approaches and towards sympathetic ones. Their second and third works portray social masks as insufficient, not deceptive, and thus human...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1108481337
ISBN13:9781108481335
Release Date:March 2019
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:306 Pages
Weight:1.40 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 9.7" x 9.3"
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