Senses of Belonging: The Synaesthetics of Citizenship in American Literature, 1862 - 1903

<p>In American letters, the Civil War represented a decisive break in literary form, a shift from interiority to exteriority. Sentimentalism harnessed the transformative effects of aesthetic feeling to galvanize political opinion in antebellum America, whereas realist and regionalist writing&#...

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Main Author: Fretwell, Erica
Other Authors: Wald, Priscilla
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10161/5657