TY  - GEN
N2  - 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.
DO  - 10.1515/9780823245550
DO  - doi
AB  - 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.
T1  - The Sentimental Touch :The Language of Feeling in the Age of Managerialism /
AU  - Ritzenberg, Aaron, 
JF  - Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
JF  - Fordham University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
CN  - PS217.E47
LA  - eng
LA  - In English.
ID  - 1477563
KW  - American literature
KW  - American literature
KW  - Emotions in literature.
KW  - American Studies.
KW  - Literary Studies.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
KW  - American literature.
KW  - Body in literature.
KW  - Business and literature.
KW  - Capitalism and feeling.
KW  - Emotion in literature.
KW  - Feeling in literature.
KW  - Managerialism.
KW  - Modernism.
KW  - Realism.
KW  - Sentimentalism.
SN  - 9780823245550
TI  - The Sentimental Touch :The Language of Feeling in the Age of Managerialism /
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