Beyond understanding : appeals to the imagination, passions, and will in mid-nineteenth-century American women's fiction
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Beyond understanding : appeals to the imagination, passions, and will in mid-nineteenth-century American women's fiction
（American university studies, Series XXIV,
Peter Lang, c1996
Available at 5 libraries
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Kobe Shoin Women's University Library / Kobe Shoin Women's College Library
A930.8||2||65H065676*
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-201) and index
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Description
To 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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