Apocalyptic sentimentalism : love and fear in U.S. antebellum literature / Kevin Pelletier.
"In contrast to the prevailing scholarly con-sensus that understands sentimentality to be grounded on a logic of love and sympathy, Apocalyptic Sentimentalism demonstrates that in order for sentimentality to work as an antislavery engine, it needed to be linked to its seeming opposite--fear, es...
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