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Public sentiments : structures of feeling in nineteenth-century American literature / Glenn Hendler

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Hendler, Glenn, 1962-
Published
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2001]
Copyright Date
©2001
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1 online resource (x, 275 pages)
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English.
Contents
Sentimental experience: white manhood in 1840s temperance narratives -- Civility and citizenship: Martin Delany's Black public sphere -- Pandering in the public sphere: masculinity and the market in Horatio Alger's fiction -- An unequaled system of publicity: the logic of sympathy in women's sentimental fiction -- Publicity is personal: Fanny Fern, Nathaniel Parker Willis, and Henry James -- Growing up in public: the bad boy and his audience
Summary
In this work, 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
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9780807860229 (electronic bk.)
0807860220 (electronic bk.)
9780807826065 (alk. paper)
0807826065 (alk. paper)
9780807849217 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0807849219 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-268) and index
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