Rule of Sympathy: Sentiment, Race, and Power 1750-1850

ISBN-13: 9781349387625 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 225 str.

A. Rai

Opis

The Rule of Sympathy is a social and historical critique of sympathy in British discourse in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century.

Recenzje

"Rule of Sympathy brings into focus issues that have occupied the margins of colonial studies for years." - Ann Laura Stoler, University of Michigan

"Subtle, wide-ranging, and magisterial, Rule of Sympathy is a rich and provocative contribution." - Don Brenneis, University of California, Santa Cruz

Spis treści

Preface Sympathetic Governmentality: Traces of Religion and the Family The Rules of Sympathy 'Some Inscrutable Appeal': Race, Gender and the Closure of Sentimentalism Theaters of Horror Conclusion Bibliography Index

O autorze

AMIT S. RAI wrote his dissertation on national identity formation in the program in Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford, and had been a full-time faculty member at the New School since 1996. He has written extensively on postcolonial cultural studies, film, race theory, diasporic identity, and the Internet. He is currently writing a book on Hindi films and globalization.