TY  - GEN
T1  - Emotional reinventions : realist-era representations beyond sympathy
A1  - Dawson, Melanie, 1967-
LA  - English
PP  - Ann Arbor
PB  - University of Michigan Press
YR  - 2015
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1276902030
AB  - " Focusing on representational approaches to emotion during the years of American literary realism's dominance and in the works of such authors as Edith Wharton, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, W. D. Howells, Charles Chesnutt, and others, Emotional Reinventions: Realist-Era Representations Beyond Sympathy contends that emotional representations were central to the self-conscious construction of high realism (in the mid-1880s) and to the interrogation of its boundaries. Based on realist-era authors' rejection of "sentimentalism" and its reduction of emotional diversity (a tendency to stress what Karen Sanchez-Eppler has described as sentimental fiction's investment in "overcoming difference"), Melanie Dawson argues that realist-era investments in emotional detail were designed to confront differences of class, gender, race, and circumstance directly. She explores the ways in which representational practices that approximate scientific methods often led away from scientific theories and rejected rigid attempts at creating emotional taxonomies. She argues that ultimately realist-era authors demonstrated a new investment in individuated emotional histories and experiences that sought to honor all affective experiences on their own terms"--
OP  - 309
CN  - PS374.R37
SN  - 9780472121151
SN  - 0472121154
SN  - 9780472072705
SN  - 9780472052707
SN  - 0472072706
SN  - 9780472072705 (hardback : acid-free paper)
KW  - American fiction : 19th century : History and criticism.
KW  - Realism in literature.
KW  - Emotions in literature.
KW  - Individuality in literature.
KW  - Difference (Psychology) in literature.
KW  - Roman américain : 19e siècle : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Réalisme dans la littérature.
KW  - Individualité dans la littérature.
KW  - LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / General.
KW  - American fiction.
KW  - 1800-1899
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ER  -