Papers on Language & Literature, March 22nd, 2000
It has become fashionable to hold that "cultural work of [a] fundamental kind was often done by exactly those popular forms that . . . have seemed the weakest of 19th-century [American] cultural life" (Fisher 5). This "redefinition of literature and literary study . . . sees literary texts not as works of art embodying enduring themes in complex forms, but as attempts to redefine the social order"(Tompkins xi).[1] This view would seem to require, and indeed its proponents typically incorporate, both a redefinition of "sentimentality"[2] from a regrettable predilection for the mawkish to an e...
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