The Plight of Feeling: Sympathy and Dissent in the Early American NovelUniversity of Chicago Press, 24/11/1997 - 306 páginas American novels written in the wake of the Revolution overflow with self-conscious theatricality and impassioned excess. In The Plight of Feeling, Julia A. Stern shows that these sentimental, melodramatic, and gothic works can be read as an emotional history of the early republic, reflecting the hate, anger, fear, and grief that tormented the Federalist era. Stern argues that these novels gave voice to a collective mourning over the violence of the Revolution and the foreclosure of liberty for the nation's noncitizens—women, the poor, Native and African Americans. Properly placed in the context of late eighteenth-century thought, the republican novel emerges as essentially political, offering its audience gothic and feminized counternarratives to read against the dominant male-authored accounts of national legitimation. Drawing upon insights from cultural history and gender studies as well as psychoanalytic, narrative, and genre theory, Stern convincingly exposes the foundation of the republic as an unquiet crypt housing those invisible Americans who contributed to its construction. |
Índice
The Plight of Feeling | xi |
Working through the Frame The Dream of Transparency in Charlotte Temple | 27 |
Beyond A Play about Words Tyrannies of Voice in The Coquette | 67 |
A Lady Who Sheds No Tears Liberty Contagion and the Demise of Fraternity in Ormond | 149 |
Notes | 235 |
| 289 | |
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 282 - The very idea of the fabrication of a new government is enough to fill us with disgust and horror. We wished at the period of the revolution, and do now wish, to derive all we possess as an inheritance from our forefathers.
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Necro Citizenship: Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth ... Russ Castronovo Pré-visualização limitada - 2001 |
The Colonizing Trick: National Culture and Imperial Citizenship in Early America David Kazanjian Pré-visualização limitada - 2003 |
Informação bibliográfica
| Título | The Plight of Feeling: Sympathy and Dissent in the Early American Novel Emersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Series The Plight of Feeling: Sympathy and Dissent in the Early American Novel, Julia A. Stern |
| Autor | Julia A. Stern |
| Edição | ilustrada |
| Editora | University of Chicago Press, 1997 |
| ISBN | 0226773108, 9780226773100 |
| Número de páginas | 306 páginas |
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