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Normative Sentimentalism and Animal Ethics
… a particularly compelling normative version of sentimentalism. The moral principle which is the foundation of this ethic is: An act, or a failure to act, is morally wrong if and only if it is committed by, contributed to by, or allowed by a moral agent, and both the motive is disapproved of by …
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Sentimentalism Made Strange: Shklovsky, Karamzin, Rousseau
… and self-expression meet to enact what I callSentimentalism made strange. Using estrangement (ostranenie), the literary device identified by Shklovsky, as an organizing principle, I investigate the cultural shift towards an underlying crude, elemental, and ultimately `savage' aesthetic that is …
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Elements of Sentimentalism in English Tragedy, 1680-1704
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Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: Realism, sentimentalism, and popular fiction
… needs to be understood as an investigation of sentimentalism and a deployment of its strategies for literary purposes.
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Sickly Sentimentalism: Sympathy and Pathology in American Women's Literature, 1866-1900
<p><em>Sickly Sentimentalism: Pathology and Sympathy in American Women’s Literature, 1866-1900</em> examines the work of four American women novelists writing between 1866 and 1900 as responses to a dominant medical discourse that pathologized women’s emotions. The popular fiction of Metta Fuller …
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Maritime Sensibility: Sentimentalism, Racial Capitalism, and a Critique of the American Maritime Genre
… implications for reassessing the development of sentimentalism in popular forms throughout the nineteenth century. Chapter one looks at the American reception of Olaudah Equiano’s "Interesting Narrative" and considers his text as both undermining the trope of maritime nationalism and …
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The American Indian as a Souvenir: Antiquarianism, Exoticism, and Sentimentalism in Cooper's "The Pioneers"
… devices of antiquarianism, exoticism, and sentimentalism to transform the American Indian into an international souvenir.
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Radical Retreats: Sentimentalism, Separate Spheres, and the Domestic Turn in American Women's Fiction, 1850--1940
By marking out a pattern of retreat in the works of American female writers---Fanny Fern, Elizabeth Stoddard, Jessie Fauset, and Dorothy Parker---who dramatize movement across social spaces, this dissertation characterizes mid-nineteenth and early twentieth century female movement into the public …
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After Uncle Tom: The domestic dialogue on slavery and race, 1852--1859
This study contributes to the reevaluation of sentimentalism, specifically examining the ways in which different authors appropriated sentimentalism to argue about slavery and race. It considers Mary Eastman's Aunt Phillis's Cabin (1852), Harriet Beecher Stowe's Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin (1853), …
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Sentimentalism and Marginality: Empathy and Empowerment for the Adult women in The Heir of Redclyffe, Jessica's First Prayer, and Misunderstood
… of the stories, it is apparent that the genre of sentimentalism attracts a female readership because it examines underlying tensions within the culture, fulfills women's need for empowerment and empathy, and offers powerful solutions to subvert constraints through its subscription to metaphor and …
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The Miseducation Of Marianne Dashwood: Jane Austen’s Politicization of Sentimental Discourse
… disclose Austen's anxieties regarding sentimentalism because, from this perspective, Marianne Dashwood's character arc illustrates the author's unhappiness with the growing sway of sentimental beliefs on impressionable young women. This thoroughgoing re-evaluation of the love triangle …
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Burning flames and seething brains: Passion, imagination, and madness in Karamzin, Pushkin, and Gogol
… and passion (strast') in Russian Sentimentalism, with a focus on the prose fiction of Nikolai Karamzin. After describing the correlation between passion and madness (a commonplace of eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century discourse) and the emergence of a positive Romantic model …
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A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study: Does Passion Ensure Nonprofit Leadership Excellence?
… its desired goals. Keywords: hermeneutical, sentimentalism, self-awareness, agility, adaptability, diligence
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Henry Fielding's use of the benevolence ethic in Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones and Amelia
… in his last novel, Amelia, it is distorted with· sentimentalism.
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Views from the Other Side: Colonial Culture and Anti-Colonial Sentiment in Germany Around 1800
… difference. I identify emotion or the mode of sentimentalism as the channel through which the alleged cultural otherness questions both colonial violence and European superiority with universal claims. In my analysis, non-Europeans are not only the colonized or the oppressed but also regain …
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Moral deftness : an intellectual virtue ethic for the social media age
… – including Kantian rationalism, Humean sentimentalism and Aristotelian virtue theory – in order to construct an account befitting the conditions of the modern day. Such an account will also make extensive use of the contemporary conception of the intellectual virtues as identified by …
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Regular Wild Irish: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in Irish American Fiction
… in various U.S. literary traditions such as sentimentalism, regionalism, and realism, Irish American writers complicated standard literary and visual representations of Irishness. Regular Wild Irish establishes that Irish American writers mobilized key, if sometimes competing, cultural …
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'All Job's stock of asses': The fiction of Laurence Sterne and the theodicy debate
… and class hierarchy, and its relationship to Sentimentalism. It shows that in each of these areas two of the major themes of contemporaneous theodicies are also fetishised subtexts in Sterne's fiction: the religious attachment to the Newtonian idea of a perfectly ordered cosmos and the anxiety …
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Gothic Stirrings on the Georgian Stage, 1740-1780
… intersection of the Gothic with the school of sentimentalism. I consider how David Hume's philosophical theory of morality inspired the Gothic experience of feeling, and how 'gothic' dramatists juggled sentimental scenes with aims of edification. I then explore how the sentimental form was …
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