Public sentiments structures of feeling in nineteenth-century American literature - Hendler, Glenn (University of North Carolina Press, 2001)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-268) and index
Structures of Feeling in Nineteenth-Century America -- Institutions of the Public Sphere -- Sentimental Experience: White Manhood in 1840s Temperance Narratives -- Civility and Citizenship: Martin Delany's Black Public Sphere -- Pandering in the Public Sphere: Masculinity and the Market in Horatio Alger's Fiction -- Performing Publicity -- An Unequaled System of Publicity: The Logic of Sympathy in Women's Sentimental Fiction -- Publicity Is Personal: Fanny Fern, Nathaniel Parker Willis, and Henry James -- Growing Up in Public: The Bad Boy and His Audience -- Coda. Toward a History of Identification
In this work, Glenn Hendler explores what he calls the "logic of sympathy" in novels by Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, T.S. Arthur, Martin Delany, Horatio Alger, Fanny Fern, Nathaniel Parker Willis, Henry James, Mark Twain, and William Dean Howells