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- Title
Seduction, Sentiment, and the Transatlantic Plain Style.
- Authors
TAWIL, EZRA
- Abstract
An essay about the relevance of American intellectual historian Perry Miller's thesis on the important role played by the Puritan plain style in American literature, is presented. Topics covered include the aesthetics of sentimental fiction, the themes of the sentimental novel of seduction including sympathy and authenticity, and the isomorphic relation between critical and literary forms of plain-style tradition making in early America.
- Subjects
MILLER, Perry, 1905-1963; HISTORIANS; PURITANS; AMERICAN literature; SENTIMENTAL fiction; REVOLUTIONARY (Literary period)
- Publication
Early American Literature, 2016, Vol 51, Issue 2, p255
- ISSN
0012-8163
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1353/eal.2016.0042