@article{1477563,
      author = {Ritzenberg, Aaron, },
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1477563},
      title = {The Sentimental Touch : The Language of Feeling in the Age  of Managerialism /},
      abstract = {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.},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823245550},
      recid = {1477563},
      pages = {1 online resource (192 p.)},
}