Uniting current scholarship on gender in nineteenth-century American culture with historical and theoretical debates on the definition of the public sphere in the period, Hendler shows how novels taught diverse readers to "feel right", to experience their identities as male or female, black or white, middle or working class, through a sentimental, emotionally based structure of feeling. He links novels with such wide-ranging cultural and political discourses as the temperance movement, feminism, and black nationalism. Public Sentiments demonstrates that, whether published for commercial reasons or for higher moral and aesthetic purposes, the nineteenth-century American novel was conceived of as a public instrument designed to play in a sentimental key.
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Uniting current scholarship on gender in nineteenth-century American culture with historical and theoretical debates on the definition of the public sphere in the period, Hendler shows how novels taught diverse readers to "feel right", to experience their identities as male or female, black or white, middle or working class, through a sentimental, emotionally based structure of feeling. He links novels with such wide-ranging cultural and political discourses as the temperance movement, feminism, and black nationalism. Public Sentiments demonstrates that, whether published for commercial reasons or for higher moral and aesthetic purposes, the nineteenth-century American novel was conceived of as a public instrument designed to play in a sentimental key.
Imprint | The University of North Carolina Press |
Country of origin | United States |
Release date | April 2001 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days |
First published | April 2001 |
Authors | Glenn Hendler |
Dimensions | 235 x 156 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback |
Pages | 288 |
Edition | New edition |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8078-4921-7 |
Barcode | 9780807849217 |
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LSN | 0-8078-4921-9 |