Public Sentiments: Structures of Feeling in Nineteenth-century American Literature

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Univ 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
 

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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
GROWING UP IN PUBLIC THE BAD BOY HIS AUDIENCES
184
TOWARD A HISTORY OF IDENTIFICATION
212
NOTES
221
INDEX
269
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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.

About the author (2001)

Glenn Hendler, assistant professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, is coeditor of Sentimental Men: Masculinity and the Politics of Affect in American Culture.

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