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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... circumstance stimulating passion in the listener , en- ergizes passion when the speaker provides evidence for an argument that produces belief . Plausibility , the second circumstance , results from a natural and feasible consistency in ...
... circumstance stimulating passion in the listener , en- ergizes passion when the speaker provides evidence for an argument that produces belief . Plausibility , the second circumstance , results from a natural and feasible consistency in ...
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... circumstance's consequences can move a listener's sympathy and so move the passions . The effective lively idea that causes a listener to identify with a character's circumstance can blur the distinction between the character's interest ...
... circumstance's consequences can move a listener's sympathy and so move the passions . The effective lively idea that causes a listener to identify with a character's circumstance can blur the distinction between the character's interest ...
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... circumstance departs from the ordinary , by how much concern the author develops in the reader for the characters ( either in their number or in their significance to the story ) , and by how much the actions and circumstances of the ...
... circumstance departs from the ordinary , by how much concern the author develops in the reader for the characters ( either in their number or in their significance to the story ) , and by how much the actions and circumstances of the ...
Contents
ILLUSTRATIONS xi | 11 |
INTRODUCTION 1 | 11 |
AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS OF THE 1850s | 27 |
Copyright | |
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