Rethinking Sympathy and Human Contact in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Introduction; 1. Transcendental approaches to human contact; 2. 'Some true relation': the evolution of Hawthorne's understanding of human contact; 3. 'The sentiment of justice must revolt in every heart': Frederick Douglass, white empathy, and the humanity of black autobiography; 4. 'All the vivacities of life lie in differences': abrasive sympathy after Uncle Tom's Cabin; 5. 'Sweet skepticism of the heart": Dickinson's sympathetic phenomenology.

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• Estudos literários: c 1800 a c 1900
• Estudos literários: ficção, romancistas e escritores de prosa