Emotional Reinventions: Realist-Era Representations Beyond Sympathy
Autor Melanie V. Dawsonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 iul 2015
Focusing on representational approaches to emotion during the years of American literary realism’s dominance and in the works of such authors as Edith Wharton, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, W. D. Howells, Charles Chesnutt, and others, Emotional Reinventions: Realist-Era Representations Beyond Sympathy contends that emotional representations were central to the self-conscious construction of high realism (in the mid-1880s) and to the interrogation of its boundaries. Based on realist-era authors’ rejection of “sentimentalism” and its reduction of emotional diversity (a tendency to stress what Karen Sanchez-Eppler has described as sentimental fiction’s investment in “overcoming difference”), Melanie Dawson argues that realist-era investments in emotional detail were designed to confront differences of class, gender, race, and circumstance directly. She explores the ways in which representational practices that approximate scientific methods often led away from scientific theories and rejected rigid attempts at creating emotional taxonomies. She argues that ultimately realist-era authors demonstrated a new investment in individuated emotional histories and experiences that sought to honor all affective experiences on their own terms.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780472052707
ISBN-10: 0472052705
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: 7 halftones
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS
Colecția University of Michigan Press
ISBN-10: 0472052705
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: 7 halftones
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS
Colecția University of Michigan Press
Notă biografică
Melanie V. Dawson is Associate Professor of English at the College of William & Mary.
Descriere
A historically informed approach to realist-era American fiction, engaging with contemporary affect theory, evolutionary theory, studies of realism, and studies of affect in American literature