Sentimentalism in nineteenth-century america: literary and cultural practices
Éditeur :
Associated University Presses
ISBN :
9781611478310
Date de publication :
14 avr. 2015
Dimensions :
23,0 x 15,0 x 1,8 cm
Poids :
363 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.