{"product_id":"the-logic-of-sentiment-kenneth-dauber-9781501357374","title":"The Logic of Sentiment: Stowe, Hawthorne, and Melville","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Logic of Sentiment\u003c\/i\u003e is a study of sentimentality, a literary mode that aims to answer the question, \"What hold us together?\" Against the grain of cultural studies, which understands sentimentality as consolidating communities on the basis of material or historical foundations, Kenneth Dauber takes a philosophical approach. He argues that sentimentality is love conceptualized in denial of a skepticism--understood as the problem of people's otherness to each other--that material associations cannot dispel. Through close readings in the style of \"ordinary language\" criticism, Dauber analyzes mid-19th-century American novels, where sentimentality achieved its most complete articulation, with a focus on three novels published nearly simultaneously-\u003ci\u003eUncle Tom's Cabin\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe House of the Seven Gables\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePierre\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eReferencing a wide range of philosophical and literary texts, Dauber examines the response of sentimental writers to their growing awareness of love's lack of foundation, the waywardness with which individuals dispose themselves as they succeed and fail in achieving a viable \"we.\" \u003ci\u003eThe Logic of Sentiment\u003c\/i\u003e traces the movement from sentimentality to realism, the relation between epistemology and ethics, and the kind of investments that writers attempt to solicit from their readers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kenneth Dauber\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501357379\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501357374\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/14\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.44d","brand":"Kenneth Dauber","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43935198511359,"sku":"9781501357374","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_285931af-16f6-4863-86ef-981cc72b23e9.jpg?v=1681418428","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-logic-of-sentiment-kenneth-dauber-9781501357374","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}