It remains to be seen how religious
sentimentalism will play in the general elections.
We find in Lejeune a passion in direct contradiction to that of Sanger, a passion for humanity that could be accused of "
sentimentalism," as he asserted, "People say, 'The price of genetic diseases is high.
It is easy for scientists to mock the emotional outbursts or
sentimentalism of sometimes-shrill advocates who, they insist, do not understand the importance of scientific inquiry and the costs of progress.
The study demonstrates that RowsonAEs use of the literary mode of
sentimentalism mirrors the rhetorical style of writing found in the Hebrew Bible.
The scene changes swiftly before a sticky unwanted
sentimentalism (which failed bring a tear to the eye) takes over.
Mercy without justice is pure
sentimentalism,' he said.
But they went out of fashion also because the tides of esthetic fashion, in flowing outward from the classical taste of previous centuries, persuaded too many people that form follows function, and ornamentalism is
sentimentalism. But mostly the Roman style went out of fashion for a still larger reason.
Because Hawthorne associates
sentimentalism in particular with the public taste, his conflicts with the market play out in his relationship to
sentimentalism in The House of the Seven Gables.
De Jong, ed.,
Sentimentalism in Nineteenth-Century America: Literary and Cultural Practices (Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2013), 232 pages, $75.00 cloth.
France's love story with book shops has been more than mere
sentimentalism. It's a part of their deep distrust for free market, regarded by many as the hidden hand of American cultural imperialism.
This essay draws upon Joanne Dobson's oft-cited definition of
sentimentalism as a literary form "premised on an emotional and philosophical ethos that celebrates human connection.
By unveiling a heretofore marginalized literary relationship between Poe and Whitman, Professor Bradford rewrites our understanding of these authors and suggests a more intimate relationship among
sentimentalism, romanticism, and transcendentalism than has previously been recognized.
