The Sentimental Touch: The Language of Feeling in the Age of Managerialism

Aaron Ritzenberg

Published by Fordham University Press 2012

The Sentimental Touch

The Language of Feeling in the Age of Managerialism

Aaron Ritzenberg

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823245550

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About this book

Examines emotion in American literature between 1850 and 1940—when sentimental literature seemed to fade from the cultural landscape and managerial bureaucracies began to dominate American culture. Offers readings of novels by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, Sherwood Anderson, Nathanael West, and David Foster Wallace.

Author / Editor information

Ritzenberg Aaron :

Aaron Ritzenberg is Associate Director of First-Year Writing at Columbia University.

Reviews

—Mary Louise Kete:
A powerful addition to the ongoing critical conversation about the role of sentimentality in shaping the parameters of American subjectivity while also offering some new and compelling readings of a small, but well chosen, set of American fictions.

Ritzenberg capably traces the 'sentimental touch'-- the evocation of emotion through bodiy relations. such as the touch of hands or an embraces-- arguing that it runs through a variety of American literary texts from 1850-1940. . . Recommended.

—Gregg Camfield:

A very humane book. Concentrating on the image of touch, Ritzenberg traces how American authors have represented human feeling. Delving into works from the 1850s to the 1930s, he shows how
Americans responded to a major consequence of industrialization--the social organization of society through
management--and how managerial principles eroded fundamental human
connections.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Touching the Body, Training the Reader Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	16
2. Managing Sentimentalism in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	42
3. Holding On to the Sentimental in Winesburg, Ohio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
4. A Touch of Miss Lonelyhearts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
Epilogue Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173

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Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Pages
- Main content: 192
Keywords: American literature; Sentimentalism; Modernism; Realism; Managerialism; Business and literature; Body in literature; Emotion in literature; Feeling in literature; Capitalism and feeling

eBook

Published: December 24, 2012
ISBN: 9780823245550