An Archaeology of Sympathy: The Sentimental Mode in Literature and Cinema

by James Chandler

In the middle of the eighteenth century, something new made itself felt in European culture--a tone or style that came to be called the sentimental. The sentimental mode went on to shape not just literature, art, music, and cinema, but people's very structures of feeling, their ways of doing and being. In what is sure to become a critical classic, An Archaeology of Sympathy challenges Sergei Eisenstein's influential account of Dickens and early American...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022603495X
• ISBN13: 9780226034959
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.3"