Beyond Understanding: Appeals to the Imagination, Passions, and Will in Mid-nineteenth-century American Women's FictionTo appreciate how and why America's first best-sellers so gripped the American soul, current readers need to recapture the era's cognitive paradigm. In Beyond Understanding, Dr. Henning introduces us to the nineteenth-century mind, influenced, in large part, by eighteenth-century Scottish philosopher, theologian, and rhetorician, George Campbell. Reading «feminine fifties» works in light of Campbell's faculty psychology helps reveal why this fiction so inspired its original readers; further, acknowledging and reevaluating marginalized reading methods supports an expanding literary canon. Finally, revisiting Campbell's «philosophy of rhetoric» encourages current lovers of discourse to experience literature and life holistically - beyond understanding. |
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... flower , and pretty little hang - head Uvularia , and delicate bloodroot , and the wild geranium and columbine ; and many others the names ... flowers stand for all nature and so show that all nature itself is Ellen's friend , so creating a ...
... flower , and pretty little hang - head Uvularia , and delicate bloodroot , and the wild geranium and columbine ; and many others the names ... flowers stand for all nature and so show that all nature itself is Ellen's friend , so creating a ...
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... flower " seemed to speak to her , " reminding her of " what I ought to be ... names that have not defiled their garments ; and they shall walk with me in ... floral metaphors that was generally assumed in the nineteenth century : " To ...
... flower " seemed to speak to her , " reminding her of " what I ought to be ... names that have not defiled their garments ; and they shall walk with me in ... floral metaphors that was generally assumed in the nineteenth century : " To ...
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... name , " Willow Heights , " however , carries with it a message extend- ing beyond Southworth's actual description of the " place " and its inhabi- tants . Through the nineteenth - century language of plant life , South- worth provides ...
... name , " Willow Heights , " however , carries with it a message extend- ing beyond Southworth's actual description of the " place " and its inhabi- tants . Through the nineteenth - century language of plant life , South- worth provides ...
Contents
ILLUSTRATIONS xi | 11 |
INTRODUCTION 1 | 11 |
AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS OF THE 1850s | 27 |
Copyright | |
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