Apocalyptic sentimentalism : : love and fear in U.S. antebellum literature / / Kevin Pelletier.

"In contrast to the prevailing scholarly con-sensus 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, es...

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Place / Publishing House:Athens : : University of Georgia Press,, [2015]
2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (271 pages) :; illustrations
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