Naomi Greyser

On Sympathetic Grounds

Race, Gender, and Affective Geographies in Nineteenth-Century North America

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Produktbeschreibung

On Sympathetic Grounds lays out sympathy's vital place in shaping North America. Naomi Greyser intersperses theoretical reflection on the affective production of space with analysis of vales of tears, heart-rending oratory, and emplotment of narrative and land in work by Sojourner Truth, Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, Nathaniel Hawthorne and others.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780190087623
• ISBN-10: 0190087625
• Artikelnr.: 58343442

Autorenporträt

Naomi Greyser is Associate Professor of Rhetoric, English and Gender Studies at the University of Iowa, where she is also executive director of POROI, Iowa's Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Chapter 1: A Paper Trail of Tears: Sentimental Sovereignty, Indian
Removal and Staking Claims on North America
* Chapter 2: The Ethical Bind of Sentimentalism:Rhetorical Intimacy in
the Public Sphere and the Many Narratives of Sojourner Truth
* Chapter 3: Between Intimacy and Distance, a "Neutral Territory":
Sentimentalism, Writer's Block and Untouchable Masculinity in The
Scarlet Letter
* Chapter 4: Plotting Maidens and Traitors: Sympathy, Displacement and
Survivance in "the New Southwest"
* Chapter 5: "Do I Not All Thy Sorrows Heed, And Bear Thee on My
Heart?" Harriet E. Wilson and the Unsympathetic Materialism of White
Northern Domesticity
* Epilogue