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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... offer " his own will [ as ] an unquestioning sacrifice to the Infinite " ( 456 ) . Thus Stowe places her own views within a mid- nineteenth - century rhetorical context in which appeals to the understand- ing ( which may well be her ...
... offer " his own will [ as ] an unquestioning sacrifice to the Infinite " ( 456 ) . Thus Stowe places her own views within a mid- nineteenth - century rhetorical context in which appeals to the understand- ing ( which may well be her ...
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... offers characters of diverse classes : one reader might identify with the economically privileged Northerners , Senator or Mrs. Bird ; another reader might identify with the economically privileged Southerners , the St. Clares ; still ...
... offers characters of diverse classes : one reader might identify with the economically privileged Northerners , Senator or Mrs. Bird ; another reader might identify with the economically privileged Southerners , the St. Clares ; still ...
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... offers her woman reader leadership role models drawn from history . Opening her tale with a positive and realistic portrayal of the " misshapened " character , Mary Derwent , Stephens also offers to en- lighten her reader's ...
... offers her woman reader leadership role models drawn from history . Opening her tale with a positive and realistic portrayal of the " misshapened " character , Mary Derwent , Stephens also offers to en- lighten her reader's ...
Contents
ILLUSTRATIONS xi | 11 |
INTRODUCTION 1 | 11 |
AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS OF THE 1850s | 27 |
Copyright | |
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