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" Public sentiments : "
Glenn Hendler
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BL
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586063
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GBA139153b415282
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| Main Entry
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Hendler, Glenn,1962-
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Public sentiments : : structures of feeling in nineteenth-century American literature /\ Glenn Hendler
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x, 275 pages ;; 23 cm
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0807826065
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: 9780807826065
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: 0807849219
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: 9780807849217
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-268) and index
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| Contents
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Introduction: Structures of Feeling in Nineteenth-Century America -- pt. 1. Institutions of the Public Sphere -- 1. Sentimental Experience: White Manhood in 1840s Temperance Narratives -- 2. Civility and Citizenship: Martin Delany's Black Public Sphere -- 3. Pandering in the Public Sphere: Masculinity and the Market in Horatio Alger's Fiction -- pt. II. Performing Publicity -- 4. An Unequaled System of Publicity: The Logic of Sympathy in Women's Sentimental Fiction -- 5. Publicity Is Personal: Fanny Fern, Nathaniel Parker Willis, and Henry James -- 6. Growing Up in Public: The Bad Boy and His Audiences -- Coda: Toward a History of Identification
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Explores "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
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American literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism
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Emotions in literature
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Didactic fiction, American-- History and criticism
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Sentimentalism in literature
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Sympathy in literature
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Sex role in literature
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813/.309353
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PS217.E47H46 2001
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