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Family, Kinship, and Sympathy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Hardcover)
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Family, Kinship, and Sympathy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
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In Family, Kinship, and Sympathy in Nineteenth-Century American
Literature Cindy Weinstein radically revises our understanding of
nineteenth-century sentimental literature in the United States. She
argues that these novels are far more complex than critics have
suggested. Rather than confirming the power of the bourgeois
family, Weinstein argues, sentimental fiction used the destruction
of the biological family as an opportunity to reconfigure the
family in terms of love rather than consanguinity. Their texts
intervened in debates about slavery, domestic reform and other
social issues of the time. Weinstein shows how canonical texts,
such as Melville's Pierre and works by Stowe and Twain, can take on
new meaning when read in the context of nineteenth-century
sentimental fiction. Through intensive close readings of a wide
range of novels, this groundbreaking study demonstrates the
aesthetic and political complexities in this important and
influential genre.
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