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Death Of A Salesman In Beijing Revisited, Ou Rong, Zhaoming Qian
Death Of A Salesman In Beijing Revisited, Ou Rong, Zhaoming Qian
English Faculty Publications
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David Walker, Harriet Beecher Stowe And The Logic Of Sentimental Terror, Kevin Pelletier
David Walker, Harriet Beecher Stowe And The Logic Of Sentimental Terror, Kevin Pelletier
English Faculty Publications
With few exceptions, contemporary criticism reads nineteenth-century sentimental fiction as a literature of love. When Harriet Beecher Stowe famously asserted that the moral growth of the nation depended on each citizen’s ability to “feel right,” she voiced a sentiment shared by many of her contemporaries. It is no surprise, then, that scholars have assumed Stowe’s injunction to “feel right” was a call to feel compassion and love, for it was ostensibly through a rhetoric of Christian love that Stowe was able to foment a passionate outcry against slavery from many of her Northern readers. Indeed, sentimentalism’s transformative potential is best …