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Apocalyptic Sentimentalism: Love and Fear in U.S. Antebellum Literature
Kevin Pelletier
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 517.
In contrast to the prevailing scholarly consensus that understands sentimentality to be grounded on a logic of love and sympathy, Apocalyptic Sentimentalism demonstrates that in order for sentimentality to work as an antislavery engine, it needed to be linked to its seeming opposite—fear, especially the fear of God’s wrath. Most antislavery reformers recognized that calls for love and sympathy or the representation of suffering slaves would not lead an audience to “feel right” or to actively oppose slavery. The threat of God’s apocalyptic vengeance—and the terror that this threat inspired—functioned within the tradition of abolitionist sentimentality as a necessary goad ... Read more
In contrast to the prevailing scholarly consensus that understands sentimentality to be grounded on a logic of love and sympathy, Apocalyptic Sentimentalism demonstrates that in order for sentimentality to work as an antislavery engine, it needed to be linked to its seeming opposite—fear, especially the fear of God’s wrath. Most antislavery reformers recognized that calls for love and sympathy or the representation of suffering slaves would not lead an audience to “feel right” or to actively oppose slavery. The threat of God’s apocalyptic vengeance—and the terror that this threat inspired—functioned within the tradition of abolitionist sentimentality as a necessary goad ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820339481
SKU
V9780820339481
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About Kevin Pelletier
Kevin Pelletier is an associate professor of English at the University of Richmond, USA. His work has been published in African American Review, Cultural Critique, and LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory.
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