Family, kinship, and sympathy in nineteenth-century American literature /

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...

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Hlavní autor: Weinstein, Cindy
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Edice:Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 147.
On-line přístup:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=181802
Obsah:
  • In loco parentis
  • "A sort of adopted daughter": family relations in The lamplighter
  • Thinking through sympathy: Kemble, Hentz, and Stowe
  • Behind the scenes of sentimental novels: Ida Mae and Twelve years a slave
  • Love American style: The wide, wide world
  • We are family, or Melville's Pierre.