1870

By Joseph Fichtelberg

Subjects: Social problems in literature, Sentimentalism in literature, Sympathy in literature, Emotions in literature, Middle class in literature, History and criticism, American prose literature, History, Literature and society, American prose literature, history and criticism, Liberalism in literature

Description: "A crucial addition to American literary criticism on sentimental literature, Critical Fictions is a groundbreaking analysis of the relations between commercial and sentimental discourses in early American literature and a history of early American economics. It will appeal to specialists as well as to the general reader interested in how American culture has portrayed women in ways that express its deepest needs."--BOOK JACKET.