articles+ search results

Masculinity -- United States, Sentimentalism -- United States, Littérature américaine -- Histoire et critique, Hommes -- États-Unis -- Psychologie, Sentimentalisme dans la littérature, Masculinité dans la littérature, Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature, Émotions dans la littérature, Hommes dans la littérature, Écrits d'hommes américains -- Histoire et critique, LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General, American literature -- Male authors, Emotions in literature, Masculinity in literature, Men in literature, Men -- Psychology, Sentimentalism in literature, Sex role in literature, American literature -- Male authors -- History and criticism, Men -- Psychology -- United States, Sentimentalism in literature, Masculinity in literature, Sex role in literature, Emotions in literature, and Men in literature

Includes bibliographical references and index
Fireside chastity : the erotics of sentimental bachelorhood in the 1850s / Vincent J. Bertolini -- Feeling for the fireside : Longfellow, Lynch, and the topography of poetic power / Kirsten Silva Gruesz -- Then when we clutch hardest : on the death of a child and the replication of an image / Karen Sánchez-Eppler -- The black body erotic and the republican body politic, 1790-1820 / John Saillant -- Remembering metacom : historical writing and the cultures of masculinity in early republican America / Philip Gould -- Bloated bodies and sober sentiments : masculinity in 1840s temperance narratives / Glenn Hendler -- Sentimental abolition in Douglass's decade : revision, erotic conversion, and the politics of witnessing in The heroic slave and My bondage and my freedom / P. Gabrielle Foreman -- Chivalric sentimentalism : the case of Dr. Howe and Laura Bridgman / Cassandra Cleghorn -- The gaze of success : failed men and the sentimental marketplace, 1873-1893 / Scott A. Sandage -- Masochism and male sentimentalism : Charles Brockden Brown's Clara Howard / Bruce Burgett -- Sentimental and romantic masculinities in Moby-Dick and Pierre / Tara Penry -- Sentimental realism in Thomas Eakins's late portraits / Martin A. Berger -- Sentimental tentacles : Frank Norris's The octopus / Francesca Sawaya

Politique et littérature -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 18e siècle, Femmes et littérature -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 18e siècle, Roman anglais -- 18e siècle -- Histoire et critique, Féminité dans la littérature, Sentimentalisme dans la littérature, Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature, Écrits de femmes anglais -- Histoire et critique, Art d'écrire -- Différences entre sexes, LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Authorship -- Sex differences, English fiction, English fiction -- Women authors, Femininity in literature, Political fiction, English, Politics and literature, Psychological fiction, English, Sentimentalism in literature, Sex role in literature, Women and literature, Engels, Letterkunde, Vrouwelijke auteurs, Sentimentalisme, Politiek, Englisch, Geschichte, Literatur, Politik, Schriftstellerin, English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism, Politics and literature -- History -- 18th century -- Great Britain, Women and literature -- History -- 18th century -- Great Britain, Psychological fiction, English -- History and criticism, English fiction -- History and criticism -- 18th century, Authorship -- Sex differences -- History -- 18th century, Political fiction, English -- History and criticism, Femininity in literature, Sentimentalism in literature, and Sex role in literature

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-231) and index
Introduction: The age of chivalry and the crisis of gender -- Mary Wollstonecraft. The distinction of the sexes: the Vindications ; Embodying the sentiments: Mary and The wrong of woman -- Ann Radcliffe. Less than man and more than woman: The romance of the forest ; The sex of suffering: The mystseries of Udolpho ; Losing the mother in the judge: The Italian -- Frances Burney. Statues, idiots, automatons: Camilla ; Vindicating the wrongs of woman: The wanderer -- Jane Austen. 'Not at all what a man should be!': remaking English manhood in Emma
In the wake of the French Revolution, Edmund Burke argued that civil order depended upon nurturing the sensibility of men--upon the masculine cultivation of traditionally feminine qualities such as sentiment, tenderness, veneration, awe, gratitude, and even prejudice. Writers as diverse as Sterne, Goldsmith, Burke, and Rousseau were politically motivated to represent authority figures as men of feeling, but denied women comparable authority by representing their feelings as inferior, pathological, or criminal. Focusing on Mary Wollstonecraft, Ann Radcliffe, Frances Burney, and Jane Austen, whos

Littérature américaine -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique, Émotions dans la littérature, Sentimentalisme dans la littérature, Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature, Roman didactique américain -- Histoire et critique, Sympathie dans la littérature, LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General, American literature -- History and criticism -- 19th century, Emotions in literature, Didactic fiction, American -- History and criticism, Sentimentalism in literature, Sympathy in literature, and Sex role in literature

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-268) and index
Structures of Feeling in Nineteenth-Century America -- Institutions of the Public Sphere -- Sentimental Experience: White Manhood in 1840s Temperance Narratives -- Civility and Citizenship: Martin Delany's Black Public Sphere -- Pandering in the Public Sphere: Masculinity and the Market in Horatio Alger's Fiction -- Performing Publicity -- An Unequaled System of Publicity: The Logic of Sympathy in Women's Sentimental Fiction -- Publicity Is Personal: Fanny Fern, Nathaniel Parker Willis, and Henry James -- Growing Up in Public: The Bad Boy and His Audience -- Coda. Toward a History of Identification
In this work, Glenn Hendler explores what he calls the 'logic of sympathy' in novels by Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, T.S. Arthur, Martin Delany, Horatio Alger, Fanny Fern, Nathaniel Parker Willis, Henry James, Mark Twain, and William Dean Howells