Transamerican Sentimentalism and Nineteenth Century Us Literary Histor

This book rethinks sentimentalism by tracing it through US writings set elsewhere in the Americas.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Coquetry and the Transamerican Foundations of US Literary Sentimentalism


• 2: Moor, Mulata, Mulatta: Mary Peabody Mann and Hemispheric Temporalities of Abolition and Empire


• 3: Sentimental Diplomacy: Negotiating Indian Removal and the US-Mexican War


• 4: The Jacobs Siblings' Black Hemispheric Geographies


• 5: Revolutionizing Sentiment: Violent Resistance in Transamerican Antislavery Narratives


• Conclusion

About the author

Maria Windell is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is interested in the intersections between genre, nation, history, and transamerican studies.

Summary

This book rethinks sentimentalism by tracing it through US writings set elsewhere in the Americas.

Product details

• Authors: Maria A. Windell, Maria A. (Assistant Professor Windell
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.07.2020
• EAN: 9780198862338
• ISBN: 978-0-19-886233-8
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Oxford Studies in American Literary History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; USA, English, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / North America, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Slavery and abolition of slavery, HISTORY / African American & Black