Sentimental Materialism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sentimental Materialism write by Lori Merish. This book was released on 2000. Sentimental Materialism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines the constructions of feminine consumption in the nineteenth century in relation to capitalism and domesticity.
Aesthetic Materialism
Aesthetic Materialism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Aesthetic Materialism write by Paul Gilmore. This book was released on 2009-01-01. Aesthetic Materialism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Aesthetic Materialism: Electricity and American Romanticism focuses on American romantic writers' attempts to theorize aesthetic experience through the language of electricity. In response to scientific and technological developments, most notably the telegraph, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century electrical imagery reflected the mysterious workings of the physical mind as well as the uncertain, sometimes shocking connections between individuals. Writers such as Whitman, Melville, and Douglass drew on images of electricity and telegraphy to describe literature both as the product of specific economic and social conditions and as a means of transcending the individual determined by such conditions. Aesthetic Materialism moves between historical and cultural analysis and close textual reading, challenging readers to see American literature as at once formal and historical and as a product of both aesthetic and material experience.
Sentimental Materialism
Sentimental Materialism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sentimental Materialism write by Lori Ann Merish. This book was released on 1993. Sentimental Materialism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Sentimental Education of the Novel
The Sentimental Education of the Novel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Sentimental Education of the Novel write by Margaret Cohen. This book was released on 2018-06-05. The Sentimental Education of the Novel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The nineteenth-century French novel has long been seen as the heroic production of great men, who confronted in their works the social consequences of the French Revolution. And it is true that French realism, especially as developed by Balzac and Stendhal, was one of the most influential novelistic forms ever invented. Margaret Cohen, however, challenges the traditional account of the genesis of realism by returning Balzac and Stendhal to the forgotten novelistic contexts of their time. Reconstructing a key formative period for the novel, she shows how realist codes emerged in a "hostile take-over" of a prestigious contemporary sentimental practice of the novel, which was almost completely dominated by women writers. Cohen draws on impressive archival research, resurrecting scores of forgotten nineteenth-century novels, to demonstrate that the codes most closely identified with realism were actually the invention of sentimentality, a powerful aesthetic of emerging liberal-democratic society, although Balzac and Stendhal trivialized sentimental works by associating them with "frivolous" women writers and readers. Attention to these gendered struggles over genre explains why women were not pioneers of realism in France during the nineteenth century, a situation that contrasts with England, where women writers played a formative role in inventing the modern realist novel. Cohen argues that to understand how literary codes respond to material factors, it is imperative to see how such factors take shape within the literary field as well as within society as a whole. The book also proposes that attention to literature as a social institution will help critics resolve the current, vital question of how to practice literary history in the wake of poststructuralism.
The Sentimental Mode
The Sentimental Mode - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Sentimental Mode write by Jennifer A. Williamson. This book was released on 2014-03-07. The Sentimental Mode available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of new essay examines how authors of the 20th and 21st centuries continue the use of sentimental forms and tropes of 19th century literature. Current literary and cultural critical consensus seems to maintain that Americans engaged in a turn-of-the-century refutation of the sentimental mode; an analysis of 20th and 21st century narratives, however, reveals an ongoing use of sentimental expression that draws upon its ability to instruct and influence readers through their emotions. While these later narratives employ aspects of the sentimental mode, many of them also engage in a critique of the failures of the sentimental, deconstructing 19th century perspectives on race, class and gender and the ways they are promoted by sentimental ideals.
