Susanna Rowson: Sentimental Prophet of Early American Literature, Steven Epley

Автор: Pelletier Kevin
Название: Apocalyptic Sentimentalism: Love and Fear in U.S. Antebellum Literature
ISBN: 0820339482 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820339481
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Описание: In contrast to the prevailing scholarly consensus that understands sentimentality to be grounded on a logic of love and sympathy, Apocalyptic Sentimentalism demonstrates that in order for sentimentality to work as an antislavery engine, it needed to be linked to its seeming opposite—fear, especially the fear of God’s wrath. Most antislavery reformers recognized that calls for love and sympathy or the representation of suffering slaves would not lead an audience to “feel right” or to actively oppose slavery. The threat of God’s apocalyptic vengeance—and the terror that this threat inspired—functioned within the tradition of abolitionist sentimentality as a necessary goad for sympathy and love. Fear, then, was at the centre of nineteenth-century sentimental strategies for inciting antislavery reform, bolstering love when love faltered, and operating as a powerful mechanism for establishing interracial sympathy. Depictions of God’s apocalyptic vengeance constituted the most efficient strategy for antislavery writers to generate a sense of terror in their audience.Focusing on a range of important antislavery figures, including David Walker, Nat Turner, Maria Stewart, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and John Brown, Apocalyptic Sentimentalism illustrates how antislavery discourse worked to redefine violence and vengeance as the ultimate expression (rather than denial) of love and sympathy. At the same time, these warnings of apocalyptic retribution enabled antislavery writers to express, albeit indirectly, fantasies of brutal violence against slaveholders. What began as a sentimental strategy quickly became an incendiary gesture, with antislavery reformers envisioning the complete annihilation of slaveholders and defenders of slavery.

Автор: Shields
Название: Sentimental Literature and Anglo-Scottish Identity, 1745–1820
ISBN: 1107449146 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107449145
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This book examines the literary negotiation of Anglo-Scottish relations in the century following the 1707 Union between Scotland`s and England`s parliaments.

Автор: Lambert Ennis
Название: Thackeray: The Sentimental Cynic
ISBN: 0810138360 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780810138360
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Описание: Chronicles British novelist William Thackeray`s ambivalent attitudes toward society and traces his conduct during the major crises of his life in terms of those attitudes. Lambert Ennis examines the emotional tensions in Thackeray`s life and the impact they had in his work. In so doing, he illustrates key themes in Victorian studies more broadly.

Автор: Goode
Название: Sentimental Masculinity and the Rise of History, 1790–1890
ISBN: 1107694256 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107694255
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Описание: Tracing the debate over what counted as history in nineteenth-century Britain, Mike Goode uncovers a Romantic literary and political tradition which held that historians must be manly and sentimental to understand history properly. Victorian academics successfully countered this tradition by asserting the superior importance of an unfeeling science of history.

Автор: Kevin Pelletier
Название: Apocalyptic Sentimentalism: Love and Fear in U.S. Antebellum Literature
ISBN: 0820354678 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820354675
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Описание: In contrast to the prevailing scholarly consensus that understands sentimentality to be grounded on a logic of love and sympathy, Apocalyptic Sentimentalism demonstrates that in order for sentimentality to work as an antislavery engine, it needed to be linked to its seeming opposite - fear, especially the fear of God`s wrath.