Family, Kinship, and Sympathy in Nineteenth Century American Literatur - Literature

Informationen zum Autor Cindy Weinstein is author of The Literature of Labor and the Labors of Literature: Allegory in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction (Cambridge 1995), and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Harriet Beecher Stowe (forthcoming, Cambridge). Zusammenfassung Cindy Weinstein's book radically revises our understanding of nineteenth-century sentimental literature. Weinstein argues that these novels are far more complex than critics have suggested. Through intensive close readings of a wide range of novels! she demonstrates the aesthetic and political complexities in this important and influential genre. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. In loco parentis; 2. 'A sort of adopted daughter': family relations in The Lamplighter; 3. Thinking through sympathy: Kemble, Hentz, and Stowe; 4. Behind the scenes of sentimental novels: Ida May and Twelve Years a Slave; 5. Love American style: The Wide, Wide World; 6. We are family, or Melville's Pierre; Afterword; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Weinstein Cindy, Cindy Weinstein, Cindy (California Institute of Technolo Weinstein
• Assisted by: Albert Gelpi (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.11.2006
• EAN: 9780521031264
• ISBN: 978-0-521-03126-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies