Sentimental readers [electronic resource] : the rise, fall, and revival of a disparaged rhetoric / Faye Halpern.
Material type: TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2013. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm)ISBN:- 9781609382100
- 1609382102
- 809/.93353 23
- PN56.S475 H35 2013
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: The how of sentimentality -- Edward Tyrrel channing and the matter of disingenuous eloquence -- Why we should trust Harriet Beecher Stowe -- The art of appearances in Louisa May Alcott -- Henry Ward Beecher and the fall of the sentimental orator -- In defense of reading badly -- A critical problem with being a good reader of sentimental rhetoric.
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