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Sentimentalism in Nineteenth-Century America: Literary and Cultural Practices
Mary G. De Jong
Sentimentalism in Nineteenth-Century America: Literary and Cultural Practices
Mary G. De Jong
Tracing the eighteenth-century origins of sentimentalism, the collection illustrates its proliferation in nineteenth-century America. Contributors explore motherhood, education, reform, loss and mourning, and the Civil War's explosion of the faith in universal feelings and ideas on which sentimentalism was based.
242 pages, 5 black & white illustrations
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | June 7, 2013 |
ISBN13 | 9781611476057 |
Publishers | Fairleigh Dickinson University Press |
Pages | 242 |
Dimensions | 227 × 238 × 28 mm · 503 g |
Editor | De Jong, Mary G. |
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