Rethinking Sympathy and Human Contact in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
earliest edition we have, 2019 Cambridge University Press, 2019 hardcover 306 pages
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 insufficie...
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