Marina Scordilis Brownlee and Marina Scordilis Brownlee
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Sentimentalism in literature, Women in literature, Spanish fiction--Roman influences, Spanish fiction--To 1500--History and criticism, Epistolary fiction, Spanish--History and criticism, and Separation (Psychology) in literature
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In this wide-ranging study Marina Scordilis Brownlee investigates the importance of the letter--often a complex interplay of objectivity and subjectivity--in the establishment of novelistic discourse. She shows how Ovid's Heroides explore the discourse of epistolarity in a way that exerted a lasting effect on Italian, French, and Spanish works of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, especially on the fifteenth-century Spanish novela sentimental, or'sentimental romance.'Presenting this proto-novelistic form as a highly original rewriting of Ovid, Brownlee demonstrates that its language model interrogates rather than affirms the linguistic referentiality implied by romance. Whereas the ambiguity of the sign had been articulated in fourteenth-century Spain (most notably by the Libro de buen amor), it is the fifteenth-century novela sentimental that fully grasps the existentially, novelistically dire consequences of this ambiguity. And in the process of deconstructing the referentiality that underlies romance, the novela sentimental reveals itself to be a discursively essential step in the evolution of the modern novel.Originally published in 1990.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
CRITICISM, AUTHOR-reader relationships, AFFECT (Psychology), WOMEN in literature, HEART, METAPHOR, and SENTIMENTALISM in literature
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This article argues that the physical language of Charlotte Smith's Elegiac Sonnets, informed by nineteenth-century medical notions of sympathy and cardiac permeability, worked to transmit affect to her readership, thus gaining their literary patronage. To support her claim, the author provides a brief background on the nineteenth-century medical notion of sympathy, a notion that involved “corpuscles” transferred between people. Like these corpuscles, feelings and emotions were, as Adela Pinch has argued, floating entities, but the author argues that they could also effect biological change. This biological concept, appropriated as literary metaphor, revolves around the heart, an organ that, in 1784, was shown permeable to infection. Smith's intensely physical images of heartache, crying, pain in the breast, or the fires of love elicited similar symptoms in the readers themselves. After discussing the bodily imagery of Smith's and her readers' sonnets, the article ends by considering the effects of sympathetic transfer. While Smith's Elegiac Sonnets mainly utilize sympathy to increase reader loyalty, later poems would use the permeability of affect toward political ends. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
CRITICISM, SUBJECTIVITY, WOMEN in literature, FEMININITY in literature, SENTIMENTALISM in literature, 18TH century English literature, and ENGLISH literature -- History & criticism
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In this article, the author attempts to show that Charlotte Smith's Elegiac Sonnets offer distinctive and fascinating representations of eighteenth-century feminine subjectivity as something alienated, traumatic and incomplete. Such a reading differs both from orthodox interpretations of the Sonnets as expressing authentic feminine experience, and later readings which emphasize Smith's performance of culturally constructed images of femininity. The author identifies sonnets where Smith neither represents (supposedly) real selves, nor plays with theatrical images of womanhood, but rather meets the cultural construction of femininity as something dispossessing, thus creating a troubled sense of self that involves dissonance or lack: what the author has termed, using one of her favourite words, “lorn”. Whether through sonnets that feel at home in the unhomely, marginal spaces of the ghostly River Arun, sonnets that adopt the violence of the sublime to depict the violent fractures in the structure of female self-consciousness, or sonnets that overturn the conventions of sentimentalism by repudiating a self identified with affectivity, Smith's sequence involves a sophisticated and provocative interrogation of feminine subjectivity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Women in literature, Emotions, Women in motion pictures, Women--Psychology, Sentimentalism in literature, Sentimentalism, Mass media and women, and Sentimentalism in motion pictures
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A literary critical and historical chronicle of women s culture in the United States from 1830 to the present, by a leading Americanist.
Sentimentalism, Sentimentalism in literature, Sentimentalism in motion pictures, Mass media and women, Women -- Psychology, Emotions, Women in literature, Women in motion pictures, Cultuurindustrie, Sentimentalisme, Vrouwen, Frau, Emotions, Mass media and women, Sentimentalism, Sentimentalism in literature, Sentimentalism in motion pictures, Women in literature, Women in motion pictures, Women -- Psychology, Massenkultur, Gefühl, and Frau
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-346) and index Poor Eliza -- Pax Americana : the case of Show boat -- National brands, national body : Imitation of life -- Uncle Sam needs a wife : citizenship and denegation -- Remembering love, forgetting everything else : Now, voyager -- 'It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes' : femininity, formalism, and Dorothy Parker -- The compulsion to repeat femininity : Landscape for a good woman and The life and loves of a she-devil The Female Complaint is part of Lauren Berlant's groundbreaking 'national sentimentality' project charting the emergence of the U.S. political sphere as an affective space of attachment and identification. In this book, Berlant chronicles the origins and conventions of the first mass-cultural 'intimate public' in the United States, a 'women's culture' distinguished by a view that women inevitably have something in common and are in need of a conversation that feels intimate and revelatory. As Berlant explains, 'women's' books, films, and television shows enact a fantasy that a woman's life is not just her own, but an experience understood by other women, no matter how dissimilar they are. The commodified genres of intimacy, such as 'chick lit,' circulate among strangers, enabling insider self-help talk to flourish in an intimate public. Sentimentality and complaint are central to this commercial convention of critique; their relation to the political realm is ambivalent, as politics seems both to threaten sentimental values and to provide certain opportunities for their extension.
American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism - Theory, etc, Sentimentalism in literature, Sex role in literature, Women and literature - United States - History - 19th century, Women in literature, Geschichte, American fiction -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc -- 19th century, Women and literature -- History -- 19th century -- United States, Women in literature, Sentimentalism in literature, and Sex role in literature
Geschichte, American literature -- History and criticism -- 1783-1850, American literature -- History and criticism -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, Liberalism in literature, Liberty in literature, Marriage in literature, Politics and literature -- History -- United States, Sentimentalism in literature, Sex role in literature, Women and literature -- History -- United States, Women in literature, Liberalismus, Literatur, Frauenliteratur, and Freiheit
English fiction -- History and criticism -- 18th century, Sentimentalism in literature, Women in literature, Erotik, Frau, Empfindsamkeit, Roman, Englisch, Erotik, and Hochschulschrift
Femmes dans la littérature, Literatura moderna - Mujeres como autoras - Historia y crítica, Literatura moderna - Siglo XX - Historia y crítica, Littérature - 20e siècle - Histoire et critique, Modernisme (Littérature), Mujeres en la literatura, Sentimentalisme dans la littérature, Sentimentalismo en la literatura, Écrits de femmes - Histoire et critique, Geschichte, Literatur, Literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism, Literature, Modern -- History and criticism -- 20th century, Modernism (Literature), Sentimentalism in literature, Women and literature -- History -- 20th century, Women in literature, Feminismus, Theorie, Frauenliteratur, Literaturkritik, and Aufsatzsammlung
Frères et soeurs - Dans la littérature, Sentiments - Dans la littérature, American fiction -- History and criticism, English fiction -- History and criticism, Fathers and daughters in literature, Heterosexuality in literature, Sentimentalism in literature, Sex (Psychology) in literature, Women and literature -- English-speaking countries, Women in literature, Englisch, Geschichte, Tochter, Vater, and Roman
WOMEN in literature, SENTIMENTALISM in literature, and CRITICISM
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Deconstructs the sentimental machinery in Herman Melville's novel, `Pierre.' Displacement of female personality with generalized types; Women as projections of male consciousness; Association of social conservatism with sexual repression and Oedipal inadequacy; Integration of good and bad in protagonist's imagination; Social constraints thwarting women's happiness.
Sentimentalism, Sentimentalism in literature, Sentimentalism in motion pictures, Mass media and women, Women -- Psychology, Emotions, Women in literature, Women in motion pictures, Cultuurindustrie, Sentimentalisme, Vrouwen, Frau, Emotions, Mass media and women, Sentimentalism, Sentimentalism in literature, Sentimentalism in motion pictures, Women in literature, Women in motion pictures, Women -- Psychology, Massenkultur, Gefühl, and Frau
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