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

by Glenn Hendler

Book Overview

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. For these nineteenth-century writers, he argues, sympathetic identification was not strictly an individual, feminizing, and private feeling but the quintessentially public sentiment--a transformative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807849219
• ISBN13: 9780807849217
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.5"