The essays in this volume analyze a wide variety of cultural forms to demonstrate the centrality of masculine sentiment in American literary and cultural history from the early republic to the progressive era. Challenging the association of sentimentality exclusively with femininity in studies of American culture, the contributors analyze sentimentalism not just as a literary genre but as a structure of feeling manifested in many areas: temperance testimonials, begging letters, historiography, philanthropic performance, photography, portraiture, and poetry. Essays from a variety of disciplines--American studies, literature, history, art, gender studies--deconstruct the alignment of reason, commerce, and the public sphere with men, and feelings, domesticity, and the private sphere with women.
| ISBN: | 9780520216228 |
| Publication date: | 12th October 1999 |
| Author: | Mary Chapman |
| Publisher: | University of California Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 297 pages |
| Genres: |
Gender studies: men and boys Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers |
The essays in this volume analyze a wide variety of cultural forms to demonstrate the centrality of masculine sentiment in American literary and cultural history from the early republic to the progressive era. Challenging the association of sentimentality exclusively with femininity in studies of American culture, the contributors analyze sentimentalism not just as a literary genre but as a structure of feeling manifested in many areas: temperance testimonials, begging letters, historiography, philanthropic performance, photography, portraiture, and poetry. Essays from a variety of disciplines--American studies, literature, history, art, gender studies--deconstruct the alignment of reason, commerce, and the public sphere with men, and feelings, domesticity, and the private sphere with women.
Sentimental Men features in the following genres: Gender studies: men and boys, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
Sentimental Men is available in Paperback
Sentimental Men was written by Mary Chapman and published by University of California Press
Sentimental Men has 297 pages