The afterlife of sympathy : reading American literary realism in the wake of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" /
"Literary realism rose to prominence in postbellum America with bold and accurate depictions of the world. This style became more popular than sentimentality--an earlier form of writing often associated with women readers and high emotions, seemingly antithetical to realism. Literary scholar Fa...
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Amherst :
University of Massachusetts Press,
2024.
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Online Access: | CONNECT |