عنوان

Apocalyptic Sentimentalism

شابک

:9780820339481

شماره

978448

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Apocalyptic Sentimentalism

نام عام مواد

[book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

: Love and Fear in U.S. Antebellum Literature

نام نخستين پديدآور

\ Kevin Pelletier.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Athens

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

: The University of Georgia Press

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

, 2015.

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xii, 256 p.

ساير جزييات

:ill.

متن يادداشت

The Ebook Format of this Book is Available.

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Index

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Bibliography

متن يادداشت

"In contrast to the prevailing scholarly con-sensus that understands sentimentality to be grounded on a logic of love and sympathy, Apocalyptic Sentimentalism demonstrates that in order for sentimentality to work as an antislavery engine, it needed to be linked to its seeming opposite--fear, especially the fear of God's wrath. Most antislavery reformers recognized that calls for love and sympathy or the representation of suffering slaves would not lead an audience to "feel right" or to actively oppose slavery. The threat of God's apocalyptic vengeance--and the terror that this threat inspired--functioned within the tradition of abolitionist sentimentality as a necessary goad for sympathy and love. Fear,then, was at the center of nineteenth-century sentimental strategies for inciting antislavery reform, bolstering love when love faltered, and operating as a powerful mechanism for establishing interracial sympathy. Depictions of God's apocalyptic vengeance constituted the most efficient strategy for antislavery writers to generate a sense of terror in their audience. Focusing on a range of important anti-slavery figures, including David Walker, Nat Turner, Maria Stewart, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and John Brown, Apocalyptic Sentimentalism illustrates how antislavery discourse worked to redefine violence and vengeance as the ultimate expression (rather than denial) of love and sympathy. At the sametime, these warnings of apocalyptic retribution enabled antislavery writers to express, albeit indirectly, fantasies of brutal violence against slaveholders. What began as a sentimental strategy quickly became an incendiary gesture, with antislavery reformers envisioning the complete annihilation of slaveholders and defenders of slavery"--

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"Situated at the intersection of love and fear, Apocalyptic Sentimentalism proposes a new genealogy for understanding literary sentimentalism as a complex negotiation of seemingly oppositional emotional economies. In the manuscript, Kevin Pelletier investigates the convergence of emergent sentimental practices with the fire and brimstone rhetoric of evangelical Christianity. Its aims are threefold: 1) to demonstrate that prophecies of apocalypse, and the fear they stimulate, are foundational to the U.S. sentimental tradition; 2) to analyze how abolitionist and antislavery writers adopted and revised the rhetoric of apocalyptic sentimentality in the years leading up to the Civil War; and 3) to examine how this discourse of apocalyptic sentimentalism was used to produce an innovative theory of selfhood, one that challenged the then-prevalent notion that African Americans were inherently inferior--physically, emotionally, and intellectually--than whites. The works of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, Martin Delany, and others are discussed, as Pelletier works to uncover this ignored tradition and demonstrate how nineteenth-century apocalyptic sentimentalists produced messianic selfhood in order to subvert established racial hierarchies"--

عنوان اصلي به زبان ديگر

:Love and fear in U.S. antebellum literature

عنصر شناسه ای

American literature

عنصر شناسه ای

Slavery in literature (N. S. G.)

عنصر شناسه ای

ادبیات آمریکایی

عنصر شناسه ای

بردگی در ابیات

تقسیم فرعی موضوعی

-- History and criticism

تقسیم فرعی موضوعی

-- تاریخ و نقد

تقسیم فرعی دوره ای

-- 19th century

تقسیم فرعی دوره ای

-- قرن ۱۹م.

داده رابط بین فیلدها

a03

داده رابط بین فیلدها

a05

داده رابط بین فیلدها

a03

داده رابط بین فیلدها

a05

موضوع مستند نشده

Antislavery movements in literature

موضوع مستند نشده

Apocalyptic literature

موضوع مستند نشده

African Americans in literature

موضوع مستند نشده

Emotions in literature

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

شماره رده

کد سيستم

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Pelletier, Kevin,1975-

تاريخ عمليات

20190818172259.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

rda

نوع ماده

BL

کد کاربرگه

270410

پیشوند ISBD اعمال شده است

1

تكميل شده

Y