Not Quite Hope and Other Political Emotions in the Gilded Age

ISBN-13: 9780198831693 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 240 str.

Nathan Wolff

Recenzje

What does democracy feel like? Nathan Wolff's superb study lays bare the complex ambivalences of political emotion during America's first Gilded Age, a period with revealing correspondences to our own. Probing a diffuse set of "almost-always-negative feelings" that surrounded political activity during this anxious era -- agitation, madness, repulsion, depression, suspicion, cynicism, and exhaustion -- Not Quite Hope shows convincingly how the postbellum political novel yearned to engage with institutional democracy even as it recoiled from it. An essential book for understanding political affect both then and now.

O autorze

Nathan Wolff is Assistant Professor of English at Tufts University. His past work has appeared in the journals American Literary History, J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, and English Literary History.