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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... stem from the different ways nineteenth- and twentieth - century readers comprehend these works . Nineteenth - century authors often had " designs " on their readers as Jane Tompkins shows in her study Sensational Designs . Whereas ...
... stem from the different ways nineteenth- and twentieth - century readers comprehend these works . Nineteenth - century authors often had " designs " on their readers as Jane Tompkins shows in her study Sensational Designs . Whereas ...
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... stem- ming from appeals to faculties in addition to understanding . Rather than women limiting themselves to the critical cognitive methods traditionally claimed by men , perhaps both men and women might revalue the multiple cognitive ...
... stem- ming from appeals to faculties in addition to understanding . Rather than women limiting themselves to the critical cognitive methods traditionally claimed by men , perhaps both men and women might revalue the multiple cognitive ...
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... stem " ( 13 ) . When , two hundred pages later in the book , Mary finally meets Catharine and finds herself inexplicably drawn to this strange Indian woman , Mary's head bends under the weight of Catharine's hand , " like a flower on ...
... stem " ( 13 ) . When , two hundred pages later in the book , Mary finally meets Catharine and finds herself inexplicably drawn to this strange Indian woman , Mary's head bends under the weight of Catharine's hand , " like a flower on ...
Contents
ILLUSTRATIONS xi | 11 |
INTRODUCTION 1 | 11 |
AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS OF THE 1850s | 23 |
Copyright | |
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