| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 306 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-291) and index. |
| Summary |
American novels written in the wake of the Revolution overflow with self-conscious theatricality and impassioned excess. In The Plight of Feeling, Julia A. Stern shows that these sentimental, melodramatic, and gothic works can be read as an emotional history of the early republic, reflecting the hate, anger, fear, and grief that tormented the Federalist era. Stern argues that these novels gave voice to a collective mourning over the violence of the Revolution and the foreclosure of liberty for the nation's noncitizens, women, the poor, Native and African Americans. |
| Contents |
The plight of feeling -- Working through the frame: the dream of transparency in Charlotte Temple -- Beyond "a play about words": tyrannies of voice in the Coquette -- A lady who sheds no tears: liberty, contagion, and the demise of fraternity in Ormond. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Rowson, Mrs., 1762-1824. Charlotte Temple.
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Foster, Hannah Webster, 1759-1840. Coquette.
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Brown, Charles Brockden, 1771-1810. Ormond.
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Rowson, Susanna Haswell, 1762-1824. Charlotte Temple. |
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Foster, Hannah Webster, 1758-1840. |
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American fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
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18th century |
| Subject |
Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
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Politics and literature. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Psychological fiction, American -- History and criticism.
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Psychological fiction, American. |
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Dissenters in literature.
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Dissenters in literature. |
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Emotions in literature.
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Emotions in literature. |
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Sympathy in literature.
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Sympathy in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Stern, Julia A. Plight of feeling. Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 1997 0226773108 (DLC) 97014419 (OCoLC)36767583 |
| ISBN |
0226773094 (electronic book) |
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9780226773094 (electronic book) |
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9780226773117 (paperback ; acid-free paper) |
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9780226773100 |
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0226773108 (acid-free paper) |
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0226773116 (paperback ; acid-free paper) |
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