The Sentimental Touch : The Language of Feeling in the Age of Managerialism /
Ritzenberg, Aaron
The Sentimental Touch : The Language of Feeling in the Age of Managerialism / Aaron Ritzenberg. - 1 online resource (192 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Touching the Body, Training the Reader -- 2. Managing Sentimentalism in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- 3. Holding On to the Sentimental in Winesburg, Ohio -- 4. A Touch of Miss Lonelyhearts -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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Between 1850 and 1940, with the rise of managerial capitalism in the United States, the most powerful businesses ceased to be family owned, instead becoming sprawling organizations controlled by complex bureaucracies. Sentimental literature—work written specifically to convey and inspire deep feeling—does not seem to fit with a swiftly bureaucratizing society. Surprisingly, though, sentimental language persisted in American literature, even as a culture of managed systems threatened to obscure the power of individual affect.The Sentimental Touch explores the strange, enduring power of sentimental language in the face of a rapidly changing culture. Analyzing novels by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, Sherwood Anderson, and Nathanael West, the book demonstrates that sentimental language changes but remains powerful, even in works by authors who self-consciously write against the sentimental tradition. Sentimental language has an afterlife, enduring in American literature long after authors and critics declared it dead, insisting that human feeling can resist a mechanizing culture and embodying, paradoxically, the way that literary conventions themselves become mechanical and systematic.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780823245529 9780823245550
10.1515/9780823245550 doi
American literature--History and criticism.--19th century
American literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Emotions in literature.
American Studies.
Literary Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
American literature. Body in literature. Business and literature. Capitalism and feeling. Emotion in literature. Feeling in literature. Managerialism. Modernism. Realism. Sentimentalism.
PS217.E47 / R58 2013eb
810.9/353
The Sentimental Touch : The Language of Feeling in the Age of Managerialism / Aaron Ritzenberg. - 1 online resource (192 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Touching the Body, Training the Reader -- 2. Managing Sentimentalism in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- 3. Holding On to the Sentimental in Winesburg, Ohio -- 4. A Touch of Miss Lonelyhearts -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Between 1850 and 1940, with the rise of managerial capitalism in the United States, the most powerful businesses ceased to be family owned, instead becoming sprawling organizations controlled by complex bureaucracies. Sentimental literature—work written specifically to convey and inspire deep feeling—does not seem to fit with a swiftly bureaucratizing society. Surprisingly, though, sentimental language persisted in American literature, even as a culture of managed systems threatened to obscure the power of individual affect.The Sentimental Touch explores the strange, enduring power of sentimental language in the face of a rapidly changing culture. Analyzing novels by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, Sherwood Anderson, and Nathanael West, the book demonstrates that sentimental language changes but remains powerful, even in works by authors who self-consciously write against the sentimental tradition. Sentimental language has an afterlife, enduring in American literature long after authors and critics declared it dead, insisting that human feeling can resist a mechanizing culture and embodying, paradoxically, the way that literary conventions themselves become mechanical and systematic.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780823245529 9780823245550
10.1515/9780823245550 doi
American literature--History and criticism.--19th century
American literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Emotions in literature.
American Studies.
Literary Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
American literature. Body in literature. Business and literature. Capitalism and feeling. Emotion in literature. Feeling in literature. Managerialism. Modernism. Realism. Sentimentalism.
PS217.E47 / R58 2013eb
810.9/353