Glenn Hendler: 1 book
Public Sentiments
Structures of Feeling in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
In this book, Glenn Hendler explores what he calls the "logic of sympathy" in novels by Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, T. S. Arthur, Martin Delany, Horatio Alger, Fanny Fern, Nathaniel Parker Willis, Henry James, Mark Twain, and William Dean Howells. For these nineteenth-century writers,...
