Sentimental readers
Subtitle: the rise, fall, and revival of a disparaged rhetoric
By: Faye Halpern
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9781609381868; 9781609382100
Subjects: Sentimentalism in literature; Narration (Rhetoric)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-209) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The how of sentimentality; title: Edward Tyrrel channing and the matter of disingenuous eloquence; title: Why we should trust Harriet Beecher Stowe; title: The art of appearances in Louisa May Alcott; title: Henry Ward Beecher and the fall of the sentimental orator; title: In defense of reading badly; title: A critical problem with being a good reader of sentimental rhetoric.