TY  - GEN
T1  - Family, kinship, and sympathy in nineteenth-century American literature
T2  - Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;
A1  - Weinstein, Cindy
LA  - English
PP  - Cambridge, UK ; New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
YR  - 2004
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn252532581
AB  - In Family, Kinship, and Sympathy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature Cindy Weinstein radically revises our understanding of nineteenth-century sentimental literature in the United States. She argues that these novels are far more complex than critics have suggested. Rather than confirming the power of the bourgeois family, Weinstein argues, sentimental fiction used the destruction of the biological family as an opportunity to reconfigure the family in terms of love rather than consanguinity. Their texts intervened in debates about slavery, domestic reform and other social issues of the time. Weinstein shows how canonical texts, such as Melville's Pierre and works by Stowe and Twain, can take on new meaning when read in the context of nineteenth-century sentimental fiction. Through intensive close readings of a wide range of novels, this groundbreaking study demonstrates the aesthetic and political complexities in this important and influential genre.
OP  - 243
CN  - PS374.D57 W45 2004eb
SN  - 051126495X
SN  - 9780511264955
SN  - 9780511265679
SN  - 0511265670
SN  - 0511263384
SN  - 9780511263385
SN  - 9780521842532
SN  - 0521842530
SN  - 0521031265
KW  - American fiction : 19th century : History and criticism.
KW  - Domestic fiction, American : History and criticism.
KW  - Literature and society : United States : History : 19th century.
KW  - Sympathy in literature.
KW  - Kinship in literature.
KW  - Families in literature.
KW  - Roman américain : 19e siècle : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Littérature et société : États-Unis : Histoire : 19e siècle.
KW  - Sympathie dans la littérature.
KW  - Parenté dans la littérature.
KW  - Familles dans la littérature.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : American : General.
KW  - American fiction.
KW  - Domestic fiction, American.
KW  - Literature and society.
KW  - United States.
KW  - Familierelaties.
KW  - 1800-1899
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
KW  - History.
ER  -