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000774162 1001_ $$aPelletier, Kevin,$$d1975-$$eauthor.
000774162 24510 $$aApocalyptic sentimentalism :$$blove and fear in U.S. antebellum literature /$$cKevin Pelletier.
000774162 264_1 $$aAthens :$$bUniversity of Georgia Press,$$c[2015]
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000774162 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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000774162 520__ $$a"In contrast to the prevailing scholarly con-sensus that understands sentimentality to be grounded on a logic of love and sympathy, Apocalyptic Sentimentalism demonstrates that in order for sentimentality to work as an antislavery engine, it needed to be linked to its seeming opposite--fear, especially the fear of God's wrath. Most antislavery reformers recognized that calls for love and sympathy or the representation of suffering slaves would not lead an audience to "feel right" or to actively oppose slavery. The threat of God's apocalyptic vengeance--and the terror that this threat inspired--functioned within the tradition of abolitionist sentimentality as a necessary goad for sympathy and love. Fear,then, was at the center of nineteenth-century sentimental strategies for inciting antislavery reform, bolstering love when love faltered, and operating as a powerful mechanism for establishing interracial sympathy. Depictions of God's apocalyptic vengeance constituted the most efficient strategy for antislavery writers to generate a sense of terror in their audience.  Focusing on a range of important anti-slavery figures, including David Walker, Nat Turner, Maria Stewart, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and John Brown, Apocalyptic Sentimentalism illustrates how antislavery discourse worked to redefine violence and vengeance as the ultimate expression (rather than denial) of love and sympathy. At the sametime, these warnings of apocalyptic retribution enabled antislavery writers to express, albeit indirectly, fantasies of brutal violence against slaveholders. What began as a sentimental strategy quickly became an incendiary gesture, with antislavery reformers envisioning the complete annihilation of slaveholders and defenders of slavery"--$$cProvided by publisher.
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000774162 650_0 $$aAmerican literature$$y19th century$$xHistory and criticism.
000774162 650_0 $$aSlavery in literature.
000774162 650_0 $$aAntislavery movements in literature.
000774162 650_0 $$aApocalyptic literature.
000774162 650_0 $$aAfrican Americans in literature.
000774162 650_0 $$aEmotions in literature.
000774162 650_0 $$aLiterature and society$$zUnited States$$xHistory$$y19th century.
000774162 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aPelletier, Kevin.$$tApocalyptic sentimentalism : love and fear in U.S. antebellum literature.$$dAthens : University of Georgia Press, [2015]$$z9780820339481$$w(DLC)10987034
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