Sentimental Catechism: Archbishop James Gibbons, Mass-Print Culture, and American Literary History
Building on an ample foundation of (often feminist) revisionary literary scholarship, which over the last decade has fostered a substantial reexamination of “sentimental” texts created by late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century American novelists, recent studies of sentimentality in nineteenth...
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| Τύπος μέσου: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Άρθρο |
| Γλώσσα: | Αγγλικά |
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Cambridge University Press
1997
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Religion and American culture
Έτος: 1997, Τόμος: 7, Τεύχος: 1, Σελίδες: 81-119 |
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| Σύνοψη: | Building on an ample foundation of (often feminist) revisionary literary scholarship, which over the last decade has fostered a substantial reexamination of “sentimental” texts created by late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century American novelists, recent studies of sentimentality in nineteenth-century American culture have continued to expose its political import, social complications, gender paradoxes, and racial construction. Once dismissed as shallow tearjerkers, American sentimental novels, which often drew on the example of British fictional models from Samuel Richardson's Pamela (1740) and Clarissa (1747-1748) to Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol (1843) and Little Dorrit (1857-1858), have recently been recognized as “the most radical popular form available to middle-class culture.” By now, Leslie Fiedler's despair in the face of the alleged artistic impoverishments of these books has been abandoned by many critics, who, bypassing or modifying Fiedler's aesthetic imperatives, now prefer to ask pointed questions about the “cultural work” that these books have performed within American society. |
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| ISSN: | 1533-8568 |
| Περιλαμβάνει: | Enthalten in: Religion and American culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1525/rac.1997.7.1.03a00040 |