Family, kinship, and sympathy in nineteenth-century American literature

In Family, Kinship, and Sympathy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature Cindy Weinstein radically revises our understanding of nineteenth-century sentimental literature in the United States. She argues that these novels are far more complex than critics have suggested, expanding the canon of sent...

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spelling oai:scholar.dlu.edu.vn:DLU123456789-349362014-01-20T01:30:57Z Family, kinship, and sympathy in nineteenth-century American literature Weinstein, Cindy American fiction History and criticism Sympathy in literature In Family, Kinship, and Sympathy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature Cindy Weinstein radically revises our understanding of nineteenth-century sentimental literature in the United States. She argues that these novels are far more complex than critics have suggested, expanding the canon of sentimental novels to include some of the more popular, though under-examined, writers, such as Mary Jane Holmes, Caroline Lee Hentz, and Mary Hayden Green Pike. Rather than confirming the power of the bourgeois family, Weinstein argues, sentimental fictions used the destruction of the biological family as an opportunity to reconfigure the family in terms of love rather than consanguinity. 2013-07-24T02:31:17Z 2013-07-24T02:31:17Z 2004 Book http://scholar.dlu.edu.vn/thuvienso/handle/DLU123456789/34936 en application/pdf Cambridge University
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topic American fiction
History and criticism
Sympathy in literature
spellingShingle American fiction
History and criticism
Sympathy in literature
Weinstein, Cindy
Family, kinship, and sympathy in nineteenth-century American literature
description In Family, Kinship, and Sympathy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature Cindy Weinstein radically revises our understanding of nineteenth-century sentimental literature in the United States. She argues that these novels are far more complex than critics have suggested, expanding the canon of sentimental novels to include some of the more popular, though under-examined, writers, such as Mary Jane Holmes, Caroline Lee Hentz, and Mary Hayden Green Pike. Rather than confirming the power of the bourgeois family, Weinstein argues, sentimental fictions used the destruction of the biological family as an opportunity to reconfigure the family in terms of love rather than consanguinity.
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title Family, kinship, and sympathy in nineteenth-century American literature
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