Rethinking Sympathy Human Contact in Nineteenth Century American - Hawthorne, Douglass, Stowe, Dickinson

Analyzes the evolution of antebellum literary explorations of sympathy and human contact in the 1850s and 1860s.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Transcendental approaches to human contact; 2. 'Some true relation': the evolution of Hawthorne's understanding of human contact; 3. 'The sentiment of justice must revolt in every heart': Frederick Douglass, white empathy, and the humanity of black autobiography; 4. 'All the vivacities of life lie in differences': abrasive sympathy after Uncle Tom's Cabin; 5. 'Sweet skepticism of the heart": Dickinson's sympathetic phenomenology.

About the author

Marianne Noble is the author of The Masochistic Pleasures of Sentimental Literature (2000), which won a Choice Outstanding Book Award. She also co-edited Emily Dickinson and Philosophy (Cambridge, 2013) and has published essays in Studies in American Fiction, The Yale Journal of Criticism, New England Quarterly, and The Emily Dickinson Journal. She has served on the Boards of American Literature, the Emily Dickinson International Society, Legacy, and the Nathaniel Hawthorne Review. In 2016, she was a Fulbright Scholar in Korea. She is an Associate Professor of Literature at American University, Washington DC and received her Ph.D. from Columbia University.

Summary

The book analyzes the evolution of antebellum literary explorations of sympathy and human contact in the 1850s and 1860s. It will appeal to undergraduates and scholars seeking new approaches to canonical American authors, psychological theorists of sympathy and empathy, and philosophers of moral philosophy.

Product details

• Authors: Marianne Noble, Marianne (American University Noble, NOBLE MARIANNE
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781108481335
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48133-5
• No. of pages: 306
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American; Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture; Cambridge Studies in American
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; USA, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers