Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction, 1790-1860 Paperback - 1986
by Jane Tompkins
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What makes a literary classic? In "Sensational Designs" Jane Tompkins argues that it is not the intrinsic merit of a text, but rather the circumstances of its writing. Against the modernist belief that art, in order to be art, must be free from propaganda, Tompkins contends that writers like Brockden Brown, Cooper, Stowe, and Warner wrote in order to alter the face of the social world, not to elicit aesthetic appreciation.Thus, the value and significance of the novels, for readers of their time, depended on precisely those characteristics that formalist criticism has taught us to deplore: stereotyped characters, sensational plots, and cliched language.
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- Title Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction, 1790-1860
- Author Jane Tompkins
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Fifth or Later E
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A.
- Date 1986-05-29
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780195041194 / 0195041194
- Weight 0.74 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 8.58 x 5.56 x 0.6 in (21.79 x 14.12 x 1.52 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 18th Century
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Library of Congress subjects American fiction - 19th century - History, Social problems in literature
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 86002492
- Dewey Decimal Code 813.209
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