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Edith Wharton's Dialogue with Realism and Sentimental Fiction

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Judith E. Funston
American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 640–641.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-3-640
Published: 01 September 2001
... underclass whose stories continue to bear witness. Lynn Z. Bloom, University of Connecticut Edith Wharton’s Dialogue with Realism and Sentimental Fiction. By Hildegard Hoeller. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida. 2000. xiv, 225 pp. $49.95. In examining Wharton’s dialogue with realist and sentimental...
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Elusive Childhood: Impossible Representations in Modern Fiction; Dependent States: The Child's Part in Nineteenth-Century American Culture; Civilized Creatures: Urban Animals, Sentimental Culture, and American Literature, 1850-1900; Schoolroom Poets: Childhood, Performance, and the Place of American Poetry, 1865-1917

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Caroline Levander
American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 213–215.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-090
Published: 01 March 2007
... is that these authors’ popular books “intervened in debates about slavery, domestic reform, and other social issues of the time.” One way Weinstein revises the mainstream view of sentimental fiction is to see that “sympathy” is usually read to reduce the other in the same way that slavery annihilates the slave...
View articletitled, Elusive Childhood: Impossible Representations in Modern <span class="search-highlight">Fiction</span>; Dependent States: The Child&#x27;s Part in Nineteenth-Century American Culture; Civilized Creatures: Urban Animals, <span class="search-highlight">Sentimental</span> Culture, and American Literature, 1850-1900; Schoolroom Poets: Childhood, Performance, and the Place of American Poetry, 1865-1917 View PDF for article titled, Elusive Childhood: Impossible Representations in Modern <span class="search-highlight">Fiction</span>; Dependent States: The Child&#x27;s Part in Nineteenth-Century American Culture; Civilized Creatures: Urban Animals, <span class="search-highlight">Sentimental</span> Culture, and American Literature, 1850-1900; Schoolroom Poets: Childhood, Performance, and the Place of American Poetry, 1865-1917
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Critical Fictions: Sentiment and the American Market, 1780-1870;Identifying the Image of God: Radical Christians and Nonviolent Power in the Antebellum United States

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Glenn Hendler
American Literature (2004) 76 (2): 394–396.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-2-394
Published: 01 June 2004
... University, San Marcos 394 American Literature Critical Fictions: Sentiment and the American Market, 1780–1870. By Joseph Fich- telberg. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2003. x, 280 pp. $39.95. Identifying the Image of God: Radical Christians and Nonviolent Power in the Ante- bellum United States...
View articletitled, Critical <span class="search-highlight">Fictions</span>: <span class="search-highlight">Sentiment</span> and the American Market, 1780-1870;Identifying the Image of God: Radical Christians and Nonviolent Power in the Antebellum United States View PDF for article titled, Critical <span class="search-highlight">Fictions</span>: <span class="search-highlight">Sentiment</span> and the American Market, 1780-1870;Identifying the Image of God: Radical Christians and Nonviolent Power in the Antebellum United States
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A Gendered Collision: Sentimentalism and Modernism in Dorothy Parker's Poetry and Fiction

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Caren Irr
American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 880–881.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-4-880
Published: 01 December 2001
... important in its emphasis on the South of the 1940s and on four complex white intellectuals. It is a project worth arguing with. Barbara Eckstein, University of Iowa A Gendered Collision: Sentimentalism and Modernism in Dorothy Parker’s Poetry and Fiction. By Rhonda S. Pettit. Cranbury, N.J...
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The Sentimentalist Terrain of Ora V. Eddleman Reed’s Twin Territories Fiction

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Kathryn Walkiewicz
American Literature (2024) 96 (4): 547–577.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11557513
Published: 01 December 2024
... are complicated by Eddleman Reed’s racial politics, her own (non)citizenship, and the contents of her short sentimental fiction, all of which did as much to reinscribe racialized notions of Indigeneity as they did to challenge prevailing settler assumptions about Native people. Reed has been hailed as a recovered...
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“Just Like Home”: Richard Wright, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and the New Deal

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Susan Louise Edmunds
American Literature (2014) 86 (1): 61–86.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2395519
Published: 01 March 2014
...Susan Louise Edmunds This essay reads Richard Wright’s Native Son (1940) against Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), the New Deal, and the intervening history of white women’s sentimental activism. It argues that Native Son is a work of domestic fiction that self-consciously engages...
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Colonial Relations in Miniature: Affective Networks, Race, and the Portrait in Victor Séjour’s “Le Mulâtre”

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Madeline Zehnder
American Literature (2021) 93 (2): 167–194.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-9003540
Published: 01 June 2021
... a fiction on which Alfred’s claim to authority depends: the belief that the people he enslaves lack meaningful interiority. For Alfred to believe Georges capable of “high sentiment” would challenge the foundation of his worldview and social order; rather than accept Georges’s “generosity,” he puts his own...
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Organic Shrapnel: Affect and Aesthetics in September 11 Fiction

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Rachel Greenwald Smith
American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 153–174.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-066
Published: 01 March 2011
... and Incredibly Close , offer gestures toward formal innovation but ultimately support sentiments that are tied to a regressive view of history. Yet in turning to a less commonly considered work of September 11 fiction, Laird Hunt's experimental noir The Exquisite , the essay offers another way of thinking about...
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Counterfeit Detectors: The Literary Origins of the US Secret Service

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Todd Barosky
American Literature (2025) 97 (1): 65–91.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11597513
Published: 01 March 2025
... space and time, and possesses unimpeachable integrity—and so embodies the very attributes that gave the greenback its value as a fiat currency. The Secret Service narrative transforms detective fiction into a celebration of a nationalism that links patriotic sentiments to recently created symbols...
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Emotional Reinventions: Realist-Era Representations beyond Sympathy Tough Enough: Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil

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Hildegard Hoeller
American Literature (2018) 90 (4): 867–869.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7208611
Published: 01 December 2018
... this does not take away from the fine study of emotional depictions in realism that Dawson offers; it just troubles these observations, simplifies them in their oppositionality to sentimental fiction’s supposed errors. Surprisingly, too, Dawson stays away from the gender dynamics of realism’s attempt...
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Science, Nature Work, and the Kinaesthetic Body in Cather and Stein

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Anne Raine
American Literature (2008) 80 (4): 799–830.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2008-039
Published: 01 December 2008
...Anne Raine This essay reads Stein and Cather's early autobiographical fictions as part of a complex negotiation of the gendered divide between the professionalizing sciences and the feminized field of “nature work.” Intrigued yet unsatisfied by scientific accounts of human consciousness...
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Law, Seduction, and the Sentimental Heroine: The Case of Amelia Norman

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Andrea L. Hibbard, John T. Parry
American Literature (2006) 78 (2): 325–355.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-005
Published: 01 June 2006
..., the sentimental seduction plot allowed nineteenth-century women readers to interpret their own sense of status inferiority and political disenfranchisement in moral terms, and therefore to mourn and dis- pute it, if only vicariously. Jane Tompkins goes even further, claim- ing that sentimental fictions...
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Master Plots: Race and the Founding of an American Literature,1787-1845

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Susan Kurjiaka
American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 633–634.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-3-633
Published: 01 September 2001
... underclass whose stories continue to bear witness. Lynn Z. Bloom, University of Connecticut Edith Wharton’s Dialogue with Realism and Sentimental Fiction. By Hildegard Hoeller. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida. 2000. xiv, 225 pp. $49.95. In examining Wharton’s dialogue with realist and sentimental...
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Transcendental Wordplay: America's Romantic Punsters and the Search for the Language of Nature

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Wesley T. Mott
American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 634–635.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-3-634
Published: 01 September 2001
... underclass whose stories continue to bear witness. Lynn Z. Bloom, University of Connecticut Edith Wharton’s Dialogue with Realism and Sentimental Fiction. By Hildegard Hoeller. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida. 2000. xiv, 225 pp. $49.95. In examining Wharton’s dialogue with realist and sentimental...
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Our Preposterous Use of Literature: Emerson and the Nature of Reading

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Philip D. Beidler
American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 635–636.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-3-635
Published: 01 September 2001
... underclass whose stories continue to bear witness. Lynn Z. Bloom, University of Connecticut Edith Wharton’s Dialogue with Realism and Sentimental Fiction. By Hildegard Hoeller. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida. 2000. xiv, 225 pp. $49.95. In examining Wharton’s dialogue with realist and sentimental...
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Poe and the Printed Word

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Eric Henderson
American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 636–637.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-3-636
Published: 01 September 2001
... underclass whose stories continue to bear witness. Lynn Z. Bloom, University of Connecticut Edith Wharton’s Dialogue with Realism and Sentimental Fiction. By Hildegard Hoeller. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida. 2000. xiv, 225 pp. $49.95. In examining Wharton’s dialogue with realist and sentimental...
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American Palestine: Melville, Twain, and the Holy Land Mania

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John Dolis
American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 637–639.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-3-637
Published: 01 September 2001
... underclass whose stories continue to bear witness. Lynn Z. Bloom, University of Connecticut Edith Wharton’s Dialogue with Realism and Sentimental Fiction. By Hildegard Hoeller. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida. 2000. xiv, 225 pp. $49.95. In examining Wharton’s dialogue with realist and sentimental...
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The Unvarnished Truth: Personal Narratives in Nineteenth-Century America

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Lynn Z. Bloom
American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 639–640.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-3-639
Published: 01 September 2001
... underclass whose stories continue to bear witness. Lynn Z. Bloom, University of Connecticut Edith Wharton’s Dialogue with Realism and Sentimental Fiction. By Hildegard Hoeller. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida. 2000. xiv, 225 pp. $49.95. In examining Wharton’s dialogue with realist and sentimental...
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H.D. and Hellenism: Classic Lines

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Cecilia Konchar Farr
American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 641–642.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-3-641
Published: 01 September 2001
... underclass whose stories continue to bear witness. Lynn Z. Bloom, University of Connecticut Edith Wharton’s Dialogue with Realism and Sentimental Fiction. By Hildegard Hoeller. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida. 2000. xiv, 225 pp. $49.95. In examining Wharton’s dialogue with realist and sentimental...
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Hard-Boiled: Working-Class Readers and Pulp Magazines

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Robert Merrill
American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 642–643.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-3-642
Published: 01 September 2001
... underclass whose stories continue to bear witness. Lynn Z. Bloom, University of Connecticut Edith Wharton’s Dialogue with Realism and Sentimental Fiction. By Hildegard Hoeller. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida. 2000. xiv, 225 pp. $49.95. In examining Wharton’s dialogue with realist and sentimental...
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