Afterlife of Sympathy
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aesthetics of emotion
affect theory in narrative
affective engagement in storytelling
affective turn in humanities scholarship
African American literary traditions
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audience engagement theory
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character-reader engagement
close reading strategies
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cultural history of emotion
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domestic fiction traditions
emotion and narrative form
emotional rhetoric in prose
emotional verisimilitude
empathy in storytelling
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ethical criticism approaches
ethics of reading practices
feeling and form in prose narrative
genre hybridity in American writing
Gilded Age fiction studies
historical poetics of the novel
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late nineteenth-century United States literature
literary emotion studies
literary historiography
literary history
modern critical theory
moral imagination in fiction
narrative empathy and feeling
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psychological characterization
race and authorship in nineteenth-century texts
reader immersion techniques
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realism debates in criticism
reception history of fiction
regional writing movements
rhetoric of emotion
sentimental discourse reconsidered
sentimentalism
social critique through narrative form
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sympathy and moral judgment
theory of the novel
transatlantic literary culture
women's contributions to national literature
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- ISBN 9781625347862
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 26 Jun 2024
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Literary realism rose to prominence in postbellum America with what the realists heralded as artful and accurate depictions of the world. Realism is thought to have replaced sentimentality--an earlier mode of writing the realists disparaged, which has often been seen as antithetical to realism. Literary scholar Faye Halpern challenges this apparent binary by uncovering how and why William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, Henry James, Constance Fenimore Woolson, and Charles Chesnutt incorporated sentimental elements into their most famous works.
With its distinctively narratological approach, The Afterlife of Sympathy offers a more rhetorical way to understand sentimentality and assess the ethical complexity of sympathy. Halpern demonstrates how sentimentality enables authors to form intimate relationships between their characters and readers to supplement the critical distance that realist writers otherwise celebrate and that has remained a key value in literary studies today. In reassessing American literary realism, Halpern seeks not only to understand why these writers adopted sentimental techniques but to provide insight into contemporary arguments in literary studies about critical distance and sympathetic identification.
With its distinctively narratological approach, The Afterlife of Sympathy offers a more rhetorical way to understand sentimentality and assess the ethical complexity of sympathy. Halpern demonstrates how sentimentality enables authors to form intimate relationships between their characters and readers to supplement the critical distance that realist writers otherwise celebrate and that has remained a key value in literary studies today. In reassessing American literary realism, Halpern seeks not only to understand why these writers adopted sentimental techniques but to provide insight into contemporary arguments in literary studies about critical distance and sympathetic identification.
Faye Halpern is associate professor of English at the University of Calgary and coeditor of Ohio State University’s Theory and Practice of Narrative book series.
