The Sentimental Touch : The Language of Feeling in the Age of Managerialism / Aaron Ritzenberg.
Ritzenberg, Aaron, author.
2012
PS217.E47 R58 2013eb
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Title The Sentimental Touch : The Language of Feeling in the Age of Managerialism / Aaron Ritzenberg.
Author Ritzenberg, Aaron, author.
ISBN 9780823245550
DOI https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823245550
Published New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2012]
Copyright ©2012
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (192 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1515/9780823245550 doi
Call Number PS217.E47 R58 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 810.9/353
Summary Between 1850 and 1940, with the rise of managerial capitalism in the United States, the most powerful businesses ceased to be family owned, instead becoming sprawling organizations controlled by complex bureaucracies. Sentimental literature-work written specifically to convey and inspire deep feeling-does not seem to fit with a swiftly bureaucratizing society. Surprisingly, though, sentimental language persisted in American literature, even as a culture of managed systems threatened to obscure the power of individual affect.The Sentimental Touch explores the strange, enduring power of sentimental language in the face of a rapidly changing culture. Analyzing novels by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, Sherwood Anderson, and Nathanael West, the book demonstrates that sentimental language changes but remains powerful, even in works by authors who self-consciously write against the sentimental tradition. Sentimental language has an afterlife, enduring in American literature long after authors and critics declared it dead, insisting that human feeling can resist a mechanizing culture and embodying, paradoxically, the way that literary conventions themselves become mechanical and systematic.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Touching the Body, Training the Reader
2. Managing Sentimentalism in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
3. Holding On to the Sentimental in Winesburg, Ohio
4. A Touch of Miss Lonelyhearts
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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