Focusing on representational approaches to emotion during the years of American literary realism s dominance and in the works of such authors as Edith Wharton, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, W. D. Howells, Charles Chesnutt, and others, "Emotional Reinventions: Realist-Era Representations Beyond Sympathy"contends that emotional representations were central to the self-conscious construction of high realism (in the mid-1880s) and to the interrogation of its boundaries. Based on realist-era authors rejection of sentimentalism and its reduction of emotional diversity (a tendency to stress what Karen...
Focusing on representational approaches to emotion during the years of American literary realism s dominance and in the works of such authors as Edith...