Sentiment and Style

Tara Penry

doi:10.1002/9781444320626.ch14

Sentiment and Style

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Original language	English
Title of host publication	A Companion to American Literature and Culture
Pages	221-236
Number of pages	16
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444320626.ch14
State	Published - 16 Mar 2010

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California ballad, "The Prisoner's Address to His Mother," conventionally sentimental in its tetrameter form and theme of homesick mother-love
Direct address in poetry -less likely to create textual redundancy than in prose
Emily Dickinson, just one of the canonical writers -understanding sentimental techniques
Frances Osgood's "The Child Playing with a Watch" demonstrating "transparency" in language, imagery
From temperance tracts to melodramas, deathbed daguerreotypes to tombstone etchings -genres of sentimental discourse reaching well beyond sphere of the literary
Hawthorne's domestic tour of the old Manse and Poe's sensational narration of the last days of the Usher house -finding some kinship with the sentimental mode
Sentiment and style
Sentimental texts, negotiating multiple discourses of the body, attention to physical vulnerability
Shirley Samuels, "culture of sentiment" -the Utopian promise of human sympathy providing a unifying principle
T.S. Arthur's popular temperance narrative, Ten Nights in a Bar-room, and What I Saw There (1854) -consumption of alcohol leading to the ruin of the helpless

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