Public Sentiments: Structures of Feeling in Nineteenth-century American LiteratureUniv of North Carolina Press, 2001 - 275 pages In this book, Glenn Hendler explores what he calls the "logic of sympathy" in novels by Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, T. S. Arthur, Martin Delany, Horatio Alger, Fanny Fern, Nathaniel Parker Willis, Henry James, Mark Twain, and William Dean Howells. Fo |
Contents
SENTIMENTAL EXPERIENCE WHITE MANHOOD IN 1840S TEMPERANCE NARRATIVES | 29 |
CIVILITY CITIZENSHIP MARTIN DELANYS BLACK PUBLIC SPHERE | 53 |
PANDERING IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE MASCULINITY THE MARKET IN HORATIO ALGERS FICTION | 82 |
AN UNEQUALED SYSTEM OF PUBLICITY THE LOGIC OF SYMPATHY IN WOMENS SENTIMENTAL FICTION | 113 |
PUBLICITY IS PERSONAL FANNY FERN NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS AND HENRY JAMES | 147 |
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American argues asserts audience bad-boy book Becky Blake bourgeois public Boy's Town boys chapter character Christie Christie's civility claim conventions counterpublic cultural dandy Delany's described discourse discussion domestic emotional experience Fanny Fern fantasy female feminine fiction figure Franklin Evans gender genre girl Habermas Habermas's Henry James hero homosocial Horatio Alger Howells Hyacinth Ibid identity ideology individual institutions interpellation Lauren Berlant literary literature logic of sympathy Louisa May Alcott male manhood Martin Delany masculinity mediated moral narration narrative Nathaniel Parker Willis nineteenth-century norms performance pleasures politics of affect Princess Casamassima protagonist Public Sentiments public sphere racial Ragged Dick readers reading represent reprinted rhetoric Sawyer says scene senti sentimental novel sexual slave social story Structural Transformation structure of feeling subjectivity sympathetic identification temperance temperance movement theatricality tion Tom Sawyer Tom's Twain Warner Washingtonian Whitman Willis's woman women writes York young
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Page 4 - As we have no immediate experience of what other men feel, we can form no idea of the manner in which they are affected, but by conceiving what we ourselves should feel in the like situation.
Page 4 - By the imagination we place ourselves in his situation, we conceive ourselves enduring all the same torments, we enter as it were into his body, and become in some measure the same person with him, and thence form some idea of his sensations, and even feel something which, though weaker in degree, is not altogether unlike them.