Sentimentalism in nineteenth-century America : literary and cultural practices /

Tracing the eighteenth-century origins of sentimentalism, the collection illustrates its proliferation in nineteenth-century America. Sentimental writings by both sexes played a major role in the formation of middle-class culture and identity as sentimentalism interacted with developing ideals of do...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Lanham, Maryland : Co-published with The Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group, Incorporated, [2013]
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