Introduction bureaucratic vistas -- Crazy love: emotional insanity in the Gilded Age -- Desire, disgust, democracy: or, aversive attachments -- Strange apathy: sentiment and sovereignty in Ramona -- On the hatred of hypocrites: Donnelly, Du Bois, race, and representation -- Cynical reason in the cranky age -- Coda election fatigue: political emotion in space and time.
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Focusing on the Washington political novel of the Gilded Age, circa 1869 to 1900, the volume examines the relationship between literature, politics, and democracy, and considers literature's role in defining and exploring the emotional contours of the political landscape in the 19th century.
Not quite hope and other political emotions in the Gilded Age.
9780198831693
American literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
Emotions in literature.
Political fiction, American-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
Politics and literature-- United States-- 19th century-- History.