On Sympathetic Grounds - Race, Gender, Affective Geographies in Nineteenth Century North

On Sympathetic Grounds lays out sympathy's vital place in shaping North America. Naomi Greyser intersperses theoretical reflection on the affective production of space with analysis of vales of tears, heart-rending oratory, and emplotment of narrative and land in work by Sojourner Truth, Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, Nathaniel Hawthorne and others.

List of contents

• Introduction


• Chapter 1: A Paper Trail of Tears: Sentimental Sovereignty, Indian Removal and Staking Claims on North America


• Chapter 2: The Ethical Bind of Sentimentalism:Rhetorical Intimacy in the Public Sphere and the Many Narratives of Sojourner Truth


• Chapter 3: Between Intimacy and Distance, a "Neutral Territory": Sentimentalism, Writer's Block and Untouchable Masculinity in The Scarlet Letter


• Chapter 4: Plotting Maidens and Traitors: Sympathy, Displacement and Survivance in "the New Southwest"


• Chapter 5: "Do I Not All Thy Sorrows Heed, And Bear Thee on My Heart?" Harriet E. Wilson and the Unsympathetic Materialism of White Northern Domesticity


• Epilogue

About the author

Naomi Greyser is Associate Professor of Rhetoric, English and Gender Studies at the University of Iowa, where she is also executive director of POROI, Iowa's Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry.

Summary

On Sympathetic Grounds lays out sympathy's vital place in shaping North America. Naomi Greyser intersperses theoretical reflection on the affective production of space with analysis of vales of tears, heart-rending oratory, and emplotment of narrative and land in work by Sojourner Truth, Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, Nathaniel Hawthorne and others.

Additional text

Greyser maps a new route through the debate over the political and moral efficacy of the sentimental mode. Through erudite analysis and personal reflection, she shows us the value in the pursuit of reciprocity, even when it fails. A vital study, On Sympathetic Grounds challenges accounts of sentimentalism as a white woman's genre taken up by people of color, uncovering mutual appropriations and revisionary projects.

Product details

• Authors: Naomi Greyser, Naomi (Assistant Professor of Rhetoric an Greyser
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.02.2020
• EAN: 9780190087623
• ISBN: 978-0-19-008762-3
• No. of pages: 274
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; English, HISTORY / United States / 21st Century, North America, Social & cultural history, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Regional, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, North America (USA and Canada), Literature: history and criticism, Historical Geography