Beyond Understanding: Appeals to the Imagination, Passions, and Will in Mid-nineteenth-century American Women's FictionPeter Lang, 1996 - 205 pages 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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... challenge twentieth - century negative criticism of the book . Re- viewing The Wide , Wide World in terms of ... challenges her reader to work as Ellen must to develop patience and to " overcome evil with good . " Warner balances ...
... challenge twentieth - century negative criticism of the book . Re- viewing The Wide , Wide World in terms of ... challenges her reader to work as Ellen must to develop patience and to " overcome evil with good . " Warner balances ...
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... challenge to men , a challenge taken up in a de- finitive way in realistic fiction . ( ix ) Habegger thus ostensibly diminishes efforts of such critics as Papashvily who touts Warner's depictions of women's daily life— " rich , poor and ...
... challenge to men , a challenge taken up in a de- finitive way in realistic fiction . ( ix ) Habegger thus ostensibly diminishes efforts of such critics as Papashvily who touts Warner's depictions of women's daily life— " rich , poor and ...
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... challenges the popular view pointedly , " Religion ! . . . Is that which can bend and turn , and descend and ascend , to fit every crooked phase of selfish , worldly society , religion ? . . . No ! ” Augustine's argument challenges both ...
... challenges the popular view pointedly , " Religion ! . . . Is that which can bend and turn , and descend and ascend , to fit every crooked phase of selfish , worldly society , religion ? . . . No ! ” Augustine's argument challenges both ...
Contents
ILLUSTRATIONS xi | 11 |
INTRODUCTION 1 | 11 |
AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS OF THE 1850s | 27 |
Copyright | |
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