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- catalog abstract "States of Sympathy calls for a new approach to reading early American fiction and politics, one that recognizes sympathy as crucial to the construction of American identity: to read sympathetically becomes synonymous with reading like an American. Examining philosophical and political texts alongside literary ones, Elizabeth Barnes explores the extent to which sympathy and sentiment are increasingly employed to construct the notion of a politically affective state. Barnes demonstrates how the family comes to represent the ideal model for social and political affiliations. Familial feeling proves the foundations for sympathy and sympathy the foundation for democracy. In holding up the family as a model for sociopolitical union, however, sentimental rhetoric conflates the boundaries between familial and sociosexual ties, resulting in a confusion of familial and erotic attachment. The distinction between licit and illicit love - exemplified in numerous stories about incest and seduction - becomes a preoccupying theme in American literature. While such stories have often been read as a manifestation of anxieties about corruption in the young republic, Barnes provocatively argues that incest and seduction actually represent the logical outcome of nineteenth-century American culture's most deeply held values.".
- catalog contributor b10435481.
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "States of Sympathy calls for a new approach to reading early American fiction and politics, one that recognizes sympathy as crucial to the construction of American identity: to read sympathetically becomes synonymous with reading like an American. Examining philosophical and political texts alongside literary ones, Elizabeth Barnes explores the extent to which sympathy and sentiment are increasingly employed to construct the notion of a politically affective state. Barnes demonstrates how the family comes to represent the ideal model for social and political affiliations. Familial feeling proves the foundations for sympathy and sympathy the foundation for democracy. In holding up the family as a model for sociopolitical union, however, sentimental rhetoric conflates the boundaries between familial and sociosexual ties, resulting in a confusion of familial and erotic attachment. The distinction between licit and illicit love - exemplified in numerous stories about incest and seduction - becomes a preoccupying theme in American literature. While such stories have often been read as a manifestation of anxieties about corruption in the young republic, Barnes provocatively argues that incest and seduction actually represent the logical outcome of nineteenth-century American culture's most deeply held values.".
- catalog description "The politics of sympathy -- Natural and national unions: Domesticating sympathy ; The metaphysics of Common sense ; The erotics of common sense: The power of sympathy ; The man within the breast -- Seductive education and the virtues of the republic: Conventional rebellions ; The art of seduction: The crimes of live and Wieland ; "Female education" and its discontents ; The authority of representation: Charlotte Temple ; "This man will seduce me into matrimony": The coquette -- Changing the subject: domestic fictions of self-possession domestic reformations: Domestic reformations ; The conversion of love: A New-England tale ; Corporate individualism: The lamplighter ; Reimagining the familiar body: Uncle Tom's cabin -- Mothers of seduction: The lessions of womanhood ; Literate and literary daughters: The wide, wide world ; Mirroring the mother text: Love's progress and Ernest Linwood ; Conclusion: Billy Budd and the critique of sympathy.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 152 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0231108788 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0231108796 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Columbia University Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "813.009/358 21".
- catalog subject "American fiction 18th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "American fiction 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Didactic fiction, American History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Domestic fiction, American History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PS374.S97 B37 1997".
- catalog subject "Politics and literature United States History.".
- catalog subject "Sentimentalism in literature.".
- catalog subject "Sympathy in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The politics of sympathy -- Natural and national unions: Domesticating sympathy ; The metaphysics of Common sense ; The erotics of common sense: The power of sympathy ; The man within the breast -- Seductive education and the virtues of the republic: Conventional rebellions ; The art of seduction: The crimes of live and Wieland ; "Female education" and its discontents ; The authority of representation: Charlotte Temple ; "This man will seduce me into matrimony": The coquette -- Changing the subject: domestic fictions of self-possession domestic reformations: Domestic reformations ; The conversion of love: A New-England tale ; Corporate individualism: The lamplighter ; Reimagining the familiar body: Uncle Tom's cabin -- Mothers of seduction: The lessions of womanhood ; Literate and literary daughters: The wide, wide world ; Mirroring the mother text: Love's progress and Ernest Linwood ; Conclusion: Billy Budd and the critique of sympathy.".
- catalog title "States of sympathy : seduction and democracy in the American novel / Elizabeth Barnes.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".