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Senses of Belonging: The Synaesthetics of Citizenship in American Literature, 1862 - 1903

Fretwell, Erica (2011)

In American letters, the Civil War represented a decisive break in literary form, a shift from interiority to exteriority. Sentimentalism harnessed the transformative effects of aesthetic feeling to galvanize political opinion ...