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

Martha L. Henning

(American university studies, Series XXIV, American literature ; vol. 65)

Peter Lang, c1996

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-201) and index

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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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