Rethinking Sympathy And Human Contact In Nineteenth Century American Literature

Download or read book Rethinking Sympathy and Human Contact in Nineteenth-Century American Literature written by Marianne Noble and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book analyzes the evolution of antebellum literary explorations of sympathy and human contact in the 1850s and 1860s. It will appeal to undergraduates and scholars seeking new approaches to canonical American authors, psychological theorists of sympathy and empathy, and philosophers of moral philosophy.