Beyond Understanding: Appeals to the Imagination, Passions, and Will in Mid-nineteenth-century American Women's FictionPeter Lang, 1996 - 205 pagini To appreciate how and why America's first best-sellers so gripped the American soul, current readers need to recapture the era's cognitive paradigm. In Beyond Understanding, Dr. Henning introduces us to the nineteenth-century mind, influenced, in large part, by eighteenth-century Scottish philosopher, theologian, and rhetorician, George Campbell. Reading «feminine fifties» works in light of Campbell's faculty psychology helps reveal why this fiction so inspired its original readers; further, acknowledging and reevaluating marginalized reading methods supports an expanding literary canon. Finally, revisiting Campbell's «philosophy of rhetoric» encourages current lovers of discourse to experience literature and life holistically - beyond understanding. |
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... vanquish error . " For example , in order to deal with the several chal- lenges posed by her abrasive aunt , Miss Fortune , Ellen must dispel igno- rance by studying scripture and vanquish error by applying the practical lessons she has ...
... vanquish error . " For example , in order to deal with the several chal- lenges posed by her abrasive aunt , Miss Fortune , Ellen must dispel igno- rance by studying scripture and vanquish error by applying the practical lessons she has ...
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... vanquish error " as she reveals how a woman can effectively ( politically and culturally ) lead her people.20 With her charismatic fig- ures , Stephens offers her woman reader leadership role models drawn from history . Opening her tale ...
... vanquish error " as she reveals how a woman can effectively ( politically and culturally ) lead her people.20 With her charismatic fig- ures , Stephens offers her woman reader leadership role models drawn from history . Opening her tale ...
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... error of admitting to the service some- one as sentimental as Traverse , while denying admission to a woman as capable as Cap . Southworth appeals to her reader's understanding to vanquish error in social and / or political terms ...
... error of admitting to the service some- one as sentimental as Traverse , while denying admission to a woman as capable as Cap . Southworth appeals to her reader's understanding to vanquish error in social and / or political terms ...
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ILLUSTRATIONS xi | 11 |
INTRODUCTION 1 | 11 |
AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS OF THE 1850s | 27 |
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19th-Century according to Campbell American women's association association psychology Baym book's Campbell's philosophy canon Cap's Capitola Catharine Montour century challenges characters Christian contemporary critics cultural current readers describes Eliza Ellen emulate ends of discourse explains faculties fiction floral flowers Freibert Gabler-Hover Godey's Godey's Lady's Book Habegger Hale Harris Henry Ward Beecher hermeneutic Herzog Hidden Hand human ideas images influence language literary live Mary Derwent mid-nineteenth-century mother move the passions moves the reader's nature nineteenth nineteenth-century American nineteenth-century reader novel Papashvily Philosophy of Rhetoric plot popular reader's imagination reader's mind reader's passions reader's understanding rhetorical appeals rhetoricians Sarah Josepha Hale scenes scholars Sensational sense slave slavery social Southern Literary Messenger Southworth Stephens Stephens's story Stowe Stowe's Susan Susan Warner sympathy Tahmeroo theological tion Tompkins Traverse twentieth-century reader Uncle Tom's Cabin vanquish error Warner Wide World women authors women writers writes Wyoming Valley Wyoming Valley Massacre