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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"sentimental fiction"”.
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Wicked widows, crazy spinsters, and competent heroines : the single woman in sentimental fiction
… of critics have given critical attention to sentimental fiction. In 1977 and 1985 respectively, Ann Douglas and Jane Tompkins set the terms for almost all subsequent arguments about antebellum female authors. What critics have not done is given particular attention to the models of single …
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Beyond the Pages: The Significance of the Social Self Proposed in Jane Austen's Persuasion
… outward-looking self of early sensibility and sentimental fiction. Austen is aware of the way in which the self can break down or build a society and she uses Persuasion to criticize the way in which the Romantic self contributes to the destruction of society and to propose an alternative to …
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Organic Angels: Innocence, Conversion, and Consumption in the Antebellum American Novel
… emphasis on a maternal ethos at work in sentimental fiction has obscured the thematic and generic traction of this nonmaternal female saint, my project traces her structural impact across a surprisingly diverse range of authors and works—Sylvester Judd's Margaret, Maria Cummins' The …
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White Women as the Abused and the Abusers: Secret History and the Seduction Plot’s Ties to Capitalism, Colonialism, and Slavery
… History is situated amongst other early American sentimental fiction like The Coquette (1797), Charlotte Temple (1791), and The Power of Sympathy (1789) to show that the way the novel discusses gender, race, and class is aligned with other early American literature and thought in this period. The …
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“THE KINSHIP OF HER PAIN”: INTIMATE HEALING IN AMERICAN WOMEN’S FICTION
… her pain:’ Intimate Healing in American Women’s Fiction” argues that in nineteenth and twentieth century American literature, women who teach each other about religion harness erotic power to upend patriarchal family structures. By attending to the nexus of theology, speculation, and homosocial …