Sentimental Twain :Samuel Clemens in the maze of moral philosophy
- 作者: Camfield, Gregg.
- 出版: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press ©1994.
- 稽核項: 1 online resource (xvi, 279 pages).
- 標題: Philosophy. , Ethik , Ethics in literature. , Ethics. , Didactic fiction, American History and criticism. , Criticism, interpretation, etc. , Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 Ethics. , Sentimentalität , Emotions in literature. , Didactic fiction, American. , History and criticism. , Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. , Philosophy in literature. , Sentimentalism in literature. , LITERARY CRITICISM , LITERARY CRITICISM American -- General. , Electronic books. , Didactic fiction, American , Twain, Mark. , Twain, Mark, , AmericanGeneral. , Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 Philosophy.
- ISBN: 1512807133 , 9781512807134
- ISBN: 0812232852 , 9780812232851
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- 附註: Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-270) and index. 1. Two Views of Twain -- 2. The Real and Ideal in the Sentimental Tradition -- 3. A "Sensation Parson": or The Moral Philosophy of Newspaper Humor -- 4. Becoming a "Littery Man" -- 5. "Training is Everything" -- 6. "All Human Rules Are More or Less Idiotic" -- 7. Dreaming Better Dreams.
- 摘要: In Sentimental Twain, Gregg Camfield examines the major and minor works of Mark Twain to redraw the boundaries between sentimentalism and realism in the second half of the nineteenth century. Beginning by taking the reactions to the question of race in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as a test case, Camfield reveals that sentimental ethics persist, though buried, in American culture, and he argues that Americans' ambivalent responses to sentimentalism explain some of the continuing controversy surrounding Mark Twain's work. Specifically, he contends, insofar as the liberal agenda remains substantially sentimental - especially when dealing with issues of race - today's readers of Twain participate in the same dialectic between sentimental compassion and realistic cynicism that Twain himself confronted. Camfield then traces the cultural development of this ethical dialectic and follows Mark Twain's reactions to it, showing that Twain was a closet sentimentalist whose public attacks on sentimentalism veiled a deep longing for a more compassionate world. Throughout, Sentimental Twain is grounded in a discussion of philosophical contexts of nineteenth-century American sentimental literature, paying particular attention to the Scottish Common Sense philosophers, but looking forward to the Pragmatism of William James.
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In Sentimental Twain, Gregg Camfield examines the major and minor works of Mark Twain to redraw the boundaries between sentimentalism and realism in the second half of the nineteenth century. Beginning by taking the reactions to the question of race in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as a test case, Camfield reveals that sentimental ethics persist, though buried, in American culture, and he argues that Americans' ambivalent responses to sentimentalism explain some of the continuing controversy surrounding Mark Twain's work. Specifically, he contends, insofar as the liberal agenda remains substantially sentimental—especially when dealing with issues of race—today's readers of Twain participate in the same dialectic between sentimental compassion and realistic cynicism that Twain himself confronted. Camfield then traces the cultural development of this ethical dialectic and follows Mark Twain's reactions to it, showing that Twain was a closet sentimentalist whose public attacks on sentimentalism veiled a deep longing for a more compassionate world. Throughout, Sentimental Twain is grounded in a discussion of philosophical contexts of nineteenth-century American sentimental literature, paying particular attention to the Scottish Common Sense philosophers but looking forward to the Pragmatism of William James.
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