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• Acknowledgements
• 1. Sport and Literature
• 2. Charles Dodgson / Lewis Carroll
• 3. Charles Hamilton Sorely
• 4. Jerome K. Jerome
• 5. John Betjeman
• 6. Alan Sillitoe
• 7. Philip Roth
• 8. Fiction, Facts, Binaries and Places Select Bibliography Index.
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This book draws on literature, specifically on the writings of selected novelists and poets to widen an existing anti-sport discourse to include hitherto excluded voices from the world of literature. The book commences with a review of exiting pro- and anti-sport discourses and then proceeds to examine, in turn, the written works of five eminent authors, excavating from their writings their anti-sports rhetorics. These writers are Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson), Charles Hamilton Sorley, Jerome K. Jerome, John Betjeman and Alan Sillitoe. In its conclusion, the book draws together the broad themes discussed in the preceding chapters. Innovative in its approach to sport and literature and remarkable for its not having been previously explored in any depth, this book will be of interest to readers from both social sciences and humanities backgrounds.
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In this fascinating study, Chris Messenger posits F. Scott Fitzgerald as a great master of sentiment in modern American fiction. Sentimental forms both attracted and repelled Fitzgerald while defining his deepest nature in prose. Messenger demonstrates that the sentimental identities, refractions, and influences Fitzgerald explores in Tender Is the Night define key components in his affective life that evolved into a powerful aesthetic, which underwrote his stature as a major novelist. In "Tender Is the Night" and F. Scott Fitzgerald's Sentimental Identities, Messenger traces the roots of Fitzgerald's writing career to the deaths of his two infant sisters, a few months before his own birth. It was their loss, Fitzgerald wrote, that made him a writer. Messenger highlights how the loss of his siblings powerfully molded his writer's relation to maternal nurturing and sympathy as well as shaped the homosocial intimations visible in the care-giving protagonist of Tender Is the Night, psychiatrist Dick Diver. A concomitant grief and mourning was articulated and fueled by Fitzgerald's intimate and writerly battle with his often-institutionalized wife, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald. While sentiment is a discredited strain in high modernism, Fitzgerald nevertheless embraced it in Tender Is the Night to articulate this most poignant and beautiful successor to The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald's aesthetic and emotional preoccupations came most vividly to life in this major novel. Messenger depicts how Fitzgerald, creating his character Nicole Warren Diver as a victim of paternal incest, finally found the sentimental key to finishing his novel and uniting his vision of the two narratives of "saving" the two sisters and reimagining the agony of his wife and their marriage. Fitzgerald's productive quarrel with and through sentiment brilliantly authorizes his career and Messenger convincingly argues that Tender Is the Night should be placed alongside The Great Gatsby as a classic novel.
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Study of Oliver Goldsmith, 1728-1774, with special reference to his She stoops to conquer and The good natur'd man.

• Acknowledgements Introduction by Alessa Johns
• Part 1 Sympathetic Identification and Narrative Sociality
• 1 "Unequally Yoked": Defoe and the Challenge of Mixed Marriage by Alison Conway
• 2 Circumstantial Particulars, Particular Individuals, and Defoe by Joanna Picciotto
• 3 The Sentimental Animal by James P. Carson
• Part 2 Sentimental Family Politics and the Novel
• 4 "The Sentimental Servant: The Dangers of Dependence in Defoe's Roxana" by Barbara Benedict
• 5 Only a Girl?: Miss Milner, Matilda, and the Consolations of Filial Piety in A Simple Story by Amy Pawl
• 6 "The Abyss of Friendship in Caleb Williams" by George E. Haggerty
• 7 "Only a Boy": George Starr's "Notes on Sentimental Novels" Revisited by Geoffrey Sill
• Part 3 Professing Literature in a Changing Marketplace
• 8 Satirical Authorship and Literary Commerce by Simon Stern
• 9 Passion in Declamation and Dialogue: How Eighteenth-Century Verse Can Work by John Richetti Publications of George Starr About the Contributors.
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As scholarly interest has turned to emotion and affect, Reflections on Sentiment offers examples of Enlightenment feeling both challenging and promoting the period's touted reason and realism. Essays explore the complex relation of thought and sentiment in discourses from moral treatises and religious debates to interrogations of gender and family relations, from fictional tests of boundaries between human and non-human species to innovations in the forms of poetry, the novel, and the literary marketplace itself.
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• Introduction: The how of sentimentality
• Edward Tyrrel channing and the matter of disingenuous eloquence
• Why we should trust Harriet Beecher Stowe
• The art of appearances in Louisa May Alcott
• Henry Ward Beecher and the fall of the sentimental orator
• In defense of reading badly
• A critical problem with being a good reader of sentimental rhetoric.

How could novels like Uncle Tom's Cabin change the hearts and minds of thousands of mid-nineteenth-century readers, yet make so many modern readers cringe at their over-the-top, tear-filled scenes? Sentimental Readers explains why sentimental rhetoric was so compelling to readers of that earlier era, why its popularity waned in the latter part of the nineteenth century, and why today it is generally characterised as overly emotional and artificial. But author Faye Halpern also does more: she demonstrates that this now despised rhetoric remains relevant to contemporary writing teachers and literary scholars. Halpern examines these novels with a fresh eye by positioning sentimentality as a rhetorical strategy on the part of these novels' (mostly) female authors, who used it to answer a question that plagued the male-dominated world of nineteenth-century American rhetoric and oratory: how could listeners be sure an eloquent speaker wasn't unscrupulously persuading them of an untruth? The authors of sentimental novels managed to solve this problem even as the professional male rhetoricians and orators could not, because sentimental rhetoric, filled with tears and other physical cues of earnestness, ensured that an audience could trust the heroes and heroines of these novels. However, as a wider range of authors began wielding sentimental rhetoric later in the nineteenth century, readers found themselves less and less convinced by this strategy. In her final discussion, Halpern steps beyond a purely historical analysis to interrogate contemporary rhetoric and reading practices among literature professors and their students, particularly first-year students new to the "close reading" method advocated and taught in most college English classrooms. Doing so allows her to investigate how sentimental novels are understood today by both groups and how these contemporary reading strategies compare to those of Americans more than a century ago. Clearly, sentimental novels still have something to teach us about how and why we read.
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