Nathan Wolff

Not Quite Hope and Other Political Emotions in the Gilded Age

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Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on the Washington political novel of the Gilded Age, circa 1869 to 1900, the volume examines the relationship between literature, politics, and democracy, and considers literature's role in defining and exploring the emotional contours of the political landscape in the nineteenth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780198831693
• ISBN-10: 0198831692
• Artikelnr.: 54797303

Autorenporträt

Nathan Wolff is Assistant Professor of English at Tufts University. His past work has appeared in the journals American Literary History, J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, and English Literary History.

Inhaltsangabe

Agitation
Introduction - Bureaucratic Vistas
Madness
1: Crazy Love: Emotional Insanity in the Gilded Age
Repulsion
2: Desire, Disgust, Democracy; or, Aversive Attachments
Depression
3: Strange Apathy: Sentiment and Sovereignty in Ramona
Suspicion
4: On the Hatred of Hypocrites: Donnelly, Du Bois, Race, and Representation
Cynicism
5: Cynical Reason in the Cranky Age
Exhaustion
Coda - Election Fatigue: Political Emotion in Space and Time
Notes
Works Cited