TY  - GEN
T1  - The afterlife of sympathy : reading American literary realism in the wake of "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
A1  - Halpern, Faye
LA  - English
PP  - Amherst
PB  - University of Massachusetts Press
YR  - 2024
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1412503275
AB  - "Literary realism rose to prominence in postbellum America with bold and accurate depictions of the world. This style became more popular than sentimentality--an earlier form of writing often associated with women readers and high emotions, seemingly antithetical to realism. Literary scholar Faye Halpern challenges this apparent binary, finding elements of the sentimental in key realist texts. With a distinctively formal and narratological approach, The Afterlife of Sympathy reveals that realist writers such as William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, Henry James, Constance Fenimore Woolson, and Charles Chesnutt used sentimental techniques to evoke sympathy and readerly immersion, even though these techniques countered prevailing conventions of realism. By reassessing the literary realism of this era, Halpern seeks to not only understand why these writers adopted sentimentality's strategies but also provide insight into contemporary arguments about critical distance and sympathetic identification in reading"--
OP  - 242
CN  - PS374.R37 H35 2024
SN  - 9781685750558
SN  - 1685750559
SN  - 9781625347855
SN  - 9781625347862
KW  - American fiction : 19th century : History and criticism.
KW  - Realism in literature.
KW  - Sentimentalism in literature.
KW  - Roman américain : 19e siècle : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Réalisme dans la littérature.
KW  - American fiction
KW  - Realism in literature
KW  - Sentimentalism in literature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / General
KW  - 1800-1899
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
KW  - Literary criticism
KW  - Literary criticism.
KW  - Critiques littéraires.
ER  -