Sentimental Collaborations: Mourning and Middle-Class Identity in Nineteenth-Century America

by Mary Louise Kete

Book Overview

During the 1992 Democratic Convention and again while delivering Harvard University's commencement address two years later, Vice President Al Gore shared with his audience a story that showed the effect of sentiment in his life. In telling how an accident involving his son had provided him with a revelation concerning the compassion of others, Gore effectively reconstructed himself as a typical, middle-class American for whom sympathy can lead to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822324717
• ISBN13: 9780822324713
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.3"