Title: 1870
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.
Subjects: Literature and society, American prose literature, History and criticism, History, Sentimentalism in literature, Sympathy in literature, Liberalism in literature, Middle class in literature, Social problems in literature, Emotions in literature, American prose literature, history and criticism
Places: United States
Time periods: 19th century, 1783-1850, 18th century