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Offers an account of Dickens and early American film by tracing the unexpected history and intricate strategies of the sentimental mode and showing how it has been reimagined over the past three centuries. This title begins with a look at Frank Capra and the Capraesque in American public life.

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"An Archaeology of Sympathy is cultural history of the first order. It unfolds thrillingly, as a kind of project of media archaeology, showing us in eye-opening ways the crucial roles that the sentimental mode accords to notions of virtual spectatorship and mediated feeling. I found myself fascinated by the historical argument about sentimentalism's relation to episodes of media shift. This book has changed the way I think about books and movies." (Deidre Lynch, University of Toronto)"

An Archaeology of Sympathy The Sentimental Mode

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 17/06/2013
      ISBN13: 9780226034959, 978-0226034959
      ISBN10: 022603495X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Offers an account of Dickens and early American film by tracing the unexpected history and intricate strategies of the sentimental mode and showing how it has been reimagined over the past three centuries. This title begins with a look at Frank Capra and the Capraesque in American public life.

      Trade Review
      "An Archaeology of Sympathy is cultural history of the first order. It unfolds thrillingly, as a kind of project of media archaeology, showing us in eye-opening ways the crucial roles that the sentimental mode accords to notions of virtual spectatorship and mediated feeling. I found myself fascinated by the historical argument about sentimentalism's relation to episodes of media shift. This book has changed the way I think about books and movies." (Deidre Lynch, University of Toronto)"

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