Overview
Tracing the eighteenth-century origins of sentimentalism, the collection illustrates its proliferation in nineteenth-century America. Contributors explore motherhood, education, reform, loss and mourning, and the Civil War's explosion of the faith in universal feelings and ideas on which sentimentalism was based.
- | Author: Mary G. De Jong
- | Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
- | Publication Date: Apr 14, 2015
- | Number of Pages: 242 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 1611478316
- | ISBN-13: 9781611478310
