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Walls, Charles A.

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Acts of the imagination: Racial sentimentalism and the modern American novel (Frederick Douglass, Charles Waddell Chesnutt, Nella Larsen, Richard Wright).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Acts of the imagination: Racial sentimentalism and the modern American novel (Frederick Douglass, Charles Waddell Chesnutt, Nella Larsen, Richard Wright)./
Author:	Walls, Charles A.
Description:	260 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-09, Section: A, page: 3305.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-09A.
Subject:	Literature, American. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3188809
ISBN:	9780542317439

Acts of the imagination: Racial sentimentalism and the modern American novel (Frederick Douglass, Charles Waddell Chesnutt, Nella Larsen, Richard Wright).
Walls, Charles A.

Acts of the imagination: Racial sentimentalism and the modern American novel (Frederick Douglass, Charles Waddell Chesnutt, Nella Larsen, Richard Wright). - 260 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-09, Section: A, page: 3305.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 2005.

The dissertation revivifies sentimentalism as both a literary and social phenomenon that exceeds the historical and generic parameters in which most scholars study it. Often viewed as the preponderance of excessive and stylized emotion, of pity and mourning, and of maternal and domestic reverence characteristic of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novels, sentimentalism is more generally an explanation of how sympathy, which relies on an act of imagination, provides a fundamental basis for morality and social organization; sentimentalism is therefore a broad social phenomenon independent of its particular literary manifestations.

ISBN: 9780542317439Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017657
Literature, American.

Acts of the imagination: Racial sentimentalism and the modern American novel (Frederick Douglass, Charles Waddell Chesnutt, Nella Larsen, Richard Wright).
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520 $a The dissertation revivifies sentimentalism as both a literary and social phenomenon that exceeds the historical and generic parameters in which most scholars study it. Often viewed as the preponderance of excessive and stylized emotion, of pity and mourning, and of maternal and domestic reverence characteristic of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novels, sentimentalism is more generally an explanation of how sympathy, which relies on an act of imagination, provides a fundamental basis for morality and social organization; sentimentalism is therefore a broad social phenomenon independent of its particular literary manifestations.
520 $a The dissertation notes that the earliest formulations of sentimentalism maintained that the very capacity for sympathy was not a universal human trait and that its extension was blocked along racial lines. Calling this belief "racial sentimentalism," the dissertation charts this form of social sentimentalism in its various historical guises, which exist well into the twentieth century. Because racial sentimentalism involves limits on the extension of sympathy, it therefore racially qualified acts of imagination, led to the devaluation of African-American imaginative works and in turn supported black social exclusion. On the surface, noting this exclusion reaffirms the assumption that African-American novels were primarily a form of social protest that offered a proof of black humanity, often with appeals to sentimentality. However, the pervasiveness of racial sentimentalism in fact provoked a self-conscious use of the imagination and emotion as a way to theorize sentimentality and to interpret social life itself as sentimental.
520 $a In chapters on Frederick Douglass, Charles Chesnutt, Nella Larsen, and Richard Wright, the dissertation describes the specific historical forms of racial sentimentalism and how each writer innovates literary form as they separate race from emotion but retain the vital connection between emotion and morality in modern American life. The dissertation concludes with the suggestion that, in the study of literature, the effects of racial sentimentalism exceeds primary literary works: racial sentimentalism legitimates assumptions about who studies or should study raced literatures and the assumption that such raced literature exits in the first place.
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