Wounded hearts: masculinity, law, and literature in American culture
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Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-212) and index |
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adam_text | The study of sentimentality
reaches a new maturity and
sophistication with Jennifer
Travis s Wounded Hearts.
Her argument is a powerful
rejoinder to those who want
to imagine that discourses
of victimhood consistently
work to the benefit of the
structurally disempowered,
showing that a rhetoric of
injury was available for
appropriation by white
men as early as the Civil
War. With impressive skill,
Travis demonstrates through
culturally informed close
readings that the language of
emotional injury not only came
to structure American fiction,
but also got institutionalized
f n
civil law and the practice of
literary criticism itself.
—Glenn Hendler, author of
Public Sentiments: Structures
of Feeling in Nineteenth-
Century American Literature
The literary study of emotion is part of an
important revisionary movement among scholars
eager to recast emotional politics for the twenty-first
century. Looking beyond the traditional categories of
sentiment, sensibility, and sympathy, Jennifer Travis
suggests a new approach to reading emotionalism
among men. She argues that the vocabulary of injury,
with its evaluations of victimhood and its assessments
of harm, has deeply influenced the cultural history
of emotions.
From the Civil War to the early twentieth century,
Travis traces the history of male emotionalism in
American discourse. She argues that injury became a
comfortable vocabulary
—
particularly among white
middle-class men
—
through which to articulate and
to claim a range of emotional wounds. The debates
about injury that flourished in the cultural arenas of
medicine, psychology, and the law spilled over into
the realm of fiction, as Travis demonstrates through
readings of works by Stephen Crane, William Dean
Howells,
Willa
Cather, Henry James, and Edith
Wharton. Travis concludes by linking this history
to twenty-first-century preoccupations with pain-
centered politics, which, she cautions, too often
focuses only on women and racial minorities.
JENNIFER TRAVIS is assistant professor of English
at St. John s University
апЗ соёЗког
of Boys Don t Cry?:
Rethinking Masculinity and Emotion in the U.S.
The University of North Carolina Press
Post Office Box
2288,
Chapel Hill, NC
27515-2288
www.uncpress.unc.edu
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, IX INTRODUCTION, I SOLDIER S HEART: THE VOCABULARY OF
INJURY AND THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR, 23 EMOTIONAL EQUITY?: WILLIAM DEAN
HOWELLS AND THE DIVORCE NOVEL, 51 THINGS NOT NAMED: WILLA CATHER S LOST
MEN, CRIMINAL CONVERSATIONS, AND EMOTIONAL AURAS, 79 ON PERSONAL
QUANTITY: PSYCHIC INJURY IN HENRY JAMES S THE GOLDEN BOWL, 105 THE
SCIENCE OF AFFECT: PROFESSIONALS READING AND THE CASE OF ETHAN FROME,
137 EPILOGUE, 163 NOTES, 169 BIBLIOGRAPHY, 189 INDEX, 213
|
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"The study of sentimentality
reaches a new maturity and
sophistication with Jennifer
Travis's Wounded Hearts.
Her argument is a powerful
rejoinder to those who want
to imagine that discourses
of victimhood consistently
work to the benefit of the
structurally disempowered,
showing that a rhetoric of
injury was available for
appropriation by white
men as early as the Civil
War. With impressive skill,
Travis demonstrates through
culturally informed close
readings that the language of
emotional injury not only came
to structure American fiction,
but also got institutionalized
f n
civil law and the practice of
literary criticism itself."
—Glenn Hendler, author of
Public Sentiments: Structures
of Feeling in Nineteenth-
Century American Literature
The literary study of emotion is part of an
important revisionary movement among scholars
eager to recast emotional politics for the twenty-first
century. Looking beyond the traditional categories of
sentiment, sensibility, and sympathy, Jennifer Travis
suggests a new approach to reading emotionalism
among men. She argues that the vocabulary of injury,
with its evaluations of victimhood and its assessments
of harm, has deeply influenced the cultural history
of emotions.
From the Civil War to the early twentieth century,
Travis traces the history of male emotionalism in
American discourse. She argues that injury became a
comfortable vocabulary
—
particularly among white
middle-class men
—
through which to articulate and
to claim a range of emotional wounds. The debates
about injury that flourished in the cultural arenas of
medicine, psychology, and the law spilled over into
the realm of fiction, as Travis demonstrates through
readings of works by Stephen Crane, William Dean
Howells,
Willa
Cather, Henry James, and Edith
Wharton. Travis concludes by linking this history
to twenty-first-century preoccupations with "pain-
centered politics," which, she cautions, too often
focuses only on women and racial minorities.
JENNIFER TRAVIS is assistant professor of English
at St. John's University
апЗ соёЗког
of Boys Don't Cry?:
Rethinking Masculinity and Emotion in the U.S.
The University of North Carolina Press
Post Office Box
2288,
Chapel Hill, NC
27515-2288
www.uncpress.unc.edu
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, IX INTRODUCTION, I SOLDIER'S HEART: THE VOCABULARY OF
INJURY AND THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR, 23 EMOTIONAL EQUITY?: WILLIAM DEAN
HOWELLS AND THE DIVORCE NOVEL, 51 THINGS NOT NAMED: WILLA CATHER'S LOST
MEN, CRIMINAL CONVERSATIONS, AND EMOTIONAL AURAS, 79 ON PERSONAL
QUANTITY: PSYCHIC INJURY IN HENRY JAMES'S THE GOLDEN BOWL, 105 THE
SCIENCE OF AFFECT: PROFESSIONALS READING AND THE CASE OF ETHAN FROME,
137 EPILOGUE, 163 NOTES, 169 BIBLIOGRAPHY, 189 INDEX, 213 |
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