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Sentimental men : masculinity and the politics of affect in American culture

This text analyses cultural forms to demonstrate the centrality of masculine sentiment in American literary and cultural history. They analyze sentimentalism not just as a literary game but as a structure of feeling manifested in many areas
Print Book, English, ©1999
University of California Press, Berkeley, Calif., ©1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc
ix, 288 pages ; 24 cm
9780520216211, 9780520216228, 0520216210, 0520216229
40838825
CONTRIBUTORS: Martin A. Berger, Vincent J. Bertolini, Bruce Burgett, Mary Chapman, Cassandra Cleghorn, P. Gabrielle Foreman, Philip Gould, Kirsten Silva Gruesz, Glenn Hendler, Tara Penry, John Saillant, Karen Sanchez-Eppler, Scott A. Sandage, Francesca Sawaya
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