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Logic of Sentiment

Stowe, Hawthorne, and Melville

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

AvKenneth Dauber,USA) Dauber, Professor or Dr. Kenneth (Professor of English, SUNY Buffalo

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The Logic of Sentiment is a study of sentimentality, a literary mode that aims to answer the question, "What hold us together?" Against the grain of cultural studies, which understands sentimentality as consolidating communities on the basis of material or historical foundations, Kenneth Dauber takes a philosophical approach. He argues that sentimentality is love conceptualized in denial of a skepticism--understood as the problem of people's otherness to each other--that material associations cannot dispel. Through close readings in the style of "ordinary language" criticism, Dauber analyzes mid-19th-century American novels, where sentimentality achieved its most complete articulation, with a focus on three novels published nearly simultaneously–Uncle Tom's Cabin, The House of the Seven Gables, and Pierre.Referencing a wide range of philosophical and literary texts, Dauber examines the response of sentimental writers to their growing awareness of love's lack of foundation, the waywardness with which individuals dispose themselves as they succeed and fail in achieving a viable "we." The Logic of Sentiment traces the movement from sentimentality to realism, the relation between epistemology and ethics, and the kind of investments that writers attempt to solicit from their readers.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-11-14
Mått140 x 214 x 14 mm
Vikt240 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieBloomsbury 3PL
Antal sidor176
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781501357367

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The word logic is not often used with the word sentiment. In connecting the two, Dauber (SUNY, Buffalo) engages with three literary texts: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The House of Seven Gables (1851), and Herman Melville’s Pierre (1852). In his philosophical analysis, Dauber makes deep inquiries into how 'out of the heart of sentimentality’s repression of skepticism, the three novels begin the process of embracing it, moving toward the reconstruction of community on the ground of skepticism' (p. 9). The chapter on Stowe’s landmark novel is the most bracing. In it, Dauber questions generic contours that readers have taken for granted, probing, for example, how Stowe 'reveals the way in which realism is a kind of sentimentality as well, translating the subjectivity of insidedness into outsidedness so effectively that it is simply never noticed as such' (p. 35). Further, discussion of Stowe reveals that 'knowing' is objective and realism is thus 'sentimentality unsentimentally articulated' (p. 46). The discussion of the character Augustine St. Clare as a skeptic is particularly useful; Dauber reads St. Clare 'not as one who does not know, but [as one] whose knowing no longer speaks to him. He knows, but has no feeling for what he knows' (p. 48). Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty.