Not Quite Hope and Other Political Emotions in the Gilded Age (Hardcover)

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Edité par Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2018

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Hardcover. Not Quite Hope and Other Political Emotions in the Gilded Age argues that late nineteenth-century US fiction grapples with and helps to conceptualize the disagreeable feelings that are both a threat to citizens' agency and an inescapable part of the emotional life of democracy--then as now. In detailing the corruption and venality for which the period remains known, authors including Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Adams, and Helen Hunt Jacksonevoked the depressing inefficacy of reform, the lunatic passions of the mob, and the revolting appetites of lobbyists and office seekers. Readers and critics of these Washington novels, historical romances, andsatiric romans a clef have denounced these books' fiercely negative tone, seeing it as a sign of cynicism and elitism. Not Quite Hope argues, in contrast, that their distrust of politics is coupled with an intense investment in it: not quite apathy, but not quite hope.Chapters examine both common and idiosyncratic forms of political emotion, including 'crazy love', disgust, cynicism, 'election fatigue', and the myriad feelings of hatred and suspicionprovoked by the figure of the hypocrite. In so doing, the book corrects critics' too-narrow focus on 'sympathy' as the American novel's model political emotion. We think of reform novels as fostering feeling for fellowcitizens or for specific causes. This volume argues that Gilded Age fiction refocuses attention on the unstable emotions that continue to shape our relation to politics as such. Focusing on the Washington political novel of the Gilded Age, circa 1869 to 1900, the volume examines the relationship between literature, politics, and democracy, and considers literature's role in defining and exploring the emotional contours of the political landscape in the nineteenth century. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Titre
Not Quite Hope and Other Political Emotions in the Gilded Age (Hardcover)
Auteur
Nathan Wolff
Éditeur
Oxford University Press, Oxford
Année de publication
2018
État de l'article
new
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Hardcover
Langue
anglais
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0198831692
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9780198831693
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Livre 18 sur 45: Oxford Studies in American Literary History

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