Sentimentalism in nineteenth-century america: literary and cultural practices
Éditeur :
Associated University Presses
ISBN :
9781611476057
Date de publication :
7 juin 2013
Dimensions :
23,4 x 15,9 x 2,4 cm
Poids :
503 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Tracing the eighteenth-century origins of sentimentalism, the collection illustrates its proliferation in nineteenth-century America. Contributors explore motherhood, education, reform, loss and mourning, and the Civil War’s explosion of the faith in universal feelings and ideas on which sentimentalism was based.