Rethinking Sympathy and Human Contact in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

by Marianne Noble

In accessible and impassioned discussions of literature and philosophy, this book reveals a surprising approach to the intractable problem of human contact. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Emily Dickinson rethought the nature of human contact, turning away from transcendentalist approaches and towards sympathetic ones. Their second and third works portray social masks as insufficient, not deceptive, and thus human...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108481337
• ISBN13: 9781108481335
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.7" x 9.3"