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Author Thrailkill, Jane F., 1963-

Title Affecting fictions : mind, body, and emotion in American literary realism / Jane F. Thrailkill.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.

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 Moore Stacks  PS374.B64 T48 2007    Available  ---
Description 312 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-296) and index.
Contents Introduction: The "affective fallacy" fallacy -- "The zest, the tingle, the excitement of reality" -- Statistical pity: Elsie Venner and the controversy over childbed fever -- Fear and epistemology: tracking the train of feeling in A mortal antipathy -- Nervous effort: Gilman, Crane, and the psychophysical pathologies of everyday life -- "Mindless" pleasure: embodies music in The awakening and Theron Ware -- Corporeal wonder: the occult entrancements of The wings of the dove.
Subject American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
American fiction.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Human body in literature.
Human body in literature.
Emotions in literature.
Emotions in literature.
Realism in literature.
Realism in literature.
Mind and body in literature.
Mind and body in literature.
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject United States -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
United States.
Intellectual life.
United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
ISBN 9780674025127 alkaline paper
0674025121 alkaline paper