The plight of feeling : sympathy and dissent in the early American novel /
American novels written in the wake of the Revolution overflow with self-conscious theatricality and impassioned excess. In The Plight of Feeling, Julia A. Stern shows that these sentimental, melodramatic, and gothic works can be read as an emotional history of the early republic, reflecting the hat...
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
1997
Chicago, Ill. : 1997 Chicago : [2008] Chicago : 1997 |
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Table of Contents:
- The plight of feeling
- Working through the frame: the dream of transparency in Charlotte Temple
- Beyond "a play about words": tyrannies of voice in the Coquette
- A lady who sheds no tears: liberty, contagion, and the demise of fraternity in Ormond
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- ONE. The Plight of Feeling
- TWO. Working through the Frame: The Dream of Transparency in Charlotte Temple
- THREE. Beyond "A Play about Words": Tyrannies of Voice in The Coquette
- FOUR. A Lady Who Sheds No Tears: Liberty, Contagion, and the Demise of Fraternity in Ormond
- Notes
- Index