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Deadly sins in literature --- Doodzonden in de letterkunde --- Doodzonden in de literatuur --- Emoties in de literatuur --- Emotions dans la littérature --- Emotions in literature --- Péchés mortels dans la littérature --- Emotions in literature. --- Deadly sins in literature. --- Dante Alighieri, --- Dante Alighieri

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This volume addresses various aspects of the character of Medea and the presentation of her emotions in literature and in connection with Medea, of philosophical views on emotions and of the reception of these themes in the later European tradition. One of the articles discusses the presentation of Medea's emotions in Hellenistic literature, i.e. in Callimachus and Apollonius Rhodius. Three other papers focus on aspects of philosophy, ranging from Plato to Stoicism. The reception of Euripidean emotionality and the character of Medea in the later European tradition is the subject of two other articles, which focus on the Renaissance poet Maffeo Vegio and on the way in which Goethe models his Iphigeneia on the character of Medea.

Medea (Greek mythology) in literature --- Greek literature, Hellenistic --- Emotions in literature --- Médée (Mythologie grecque) dans la littérature --- Littérature grecque hellénistique --- Emotions dans la littérature --- Themes, motives --- Thèmes, motifs --- Emoties in de literatuur --- Médée (Mythologie grecque) dans la littérature --- Littérature grecque hellénistique --- Emotions dans la littérature --- Thèmes, motifs --- Classical literature --- History and criticism --- Medea. Consort of Aegeus, King of Athens (Mythological character) --- In literature --- Medea, --- In literature.

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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, especially the fear of God's wrath. Most antislavery reformers recognized that calls for love and sympathy or the representation of suffering slaves would not lead an audience to "feel right" or to actively oppose slavery. The threat of God's apocalyptic vengeance--and the terror that this threat inspired--functioned within the tradition of abolitionist sentimentality as a necessary goad for sympathy and love. Fear,then, was at the center of nineteenth-century sentimental strategies for inciting antislavery reform, bolstering love when love faltered, and operating as a powerful mechanism for establishing interracial sympathy. Depictions of God's apocalyptic vengeance constituted the most efficient strategy for antislavery writers to generate a sense of terror in their audience. Focusing on a range of important anti-slavery figures, including David Walker, Nat Turner, Maria Stewart, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and John Brown, Apocalyptic Sentimentalism illustrates how antislavery discourse worked to redefine violence and vengeance as the ultimate expression (rather than denial) of love and sympathy. At the sametime, these warnings of apocalyptic retribution enabled antislavery writers to express, albeit indirectly, fantasies of brutal violence against slaveholders. What began as a sentimental strategy quickly became an incendiary gesture, with antislavery reformers envisioning the complete annihilation of slaveholders and defenders of slavery. Situated at the intersection of love and fear, Apocalyptic Sentimentalism proposes a new genealogy for understanding literary sentimentalism as a complex negotiation of seemingly oppositional emotional economies. In the manuscript, Kevin Pelletier investigates the convergence of emergent sentimental practices with the fire and brimstone rhetoric of evangelical Christianity. Its aims are threefold: 1) to demonstrate that prophecies of apocalypse, and the fear they stimulate, are foundational to the U.S. sentimental tradition; 2) to analyze how abolitionist and antislavery writers adopted and revised the rhetoric of apocalyptic sentimentality in the years leading up to the Civil War; and 3) to examine how this discourse of apocalyptic sentimentalism was used to produce an innovative theory of selfhood, one that challenged the then-prevalent notion that African Americans were inherently inferior--physically, emotionally, and intellectually--than whites. The works of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, Martin Delany, and others are discussed, as Pelletier works to uncover this ignored tradition and demonstrate how nineteenth-century apocalyptic sentimentalists produced messianic selfhood in order to subvert established racial hierarchies.

African Americans in literature --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Afro-Amerikanen in de literatuur --- Afro-Américains dans la littérature --- Amerikaanse zwarten in de literatuur --- Apocalyptic literature --- Apocalyptische literatuur --- Black Americans in literature --- Emoties in de literatuur --- Emotions dans la littérature --- Emotions in literature --- Esclavage dans la littérature --- Esclaves dans la littérature --- Literature [Apocalyptic ] --- Literatuur [Apocalyptische ] --- Littérature apocalyptique --- Negroes in literature --- Noirs américains dans la littérature --- Slaven in de literatuur --- Slavernij in de literatuur --- Slavery in literature --- Slaves in literature --- Zwarte Amerikanen in de literatuur --- American literature --- Slavery in literature. --- Antislavery movements in literature. --- Apocalyptic literature. --- African Americans in literature. --- Emotions in literature. --- Literature and society --- LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. --- History and criticism. --- History --- 19th century --- History and criticism --- Antislavery movements in literature --- United States --- Walker, David --- Criticism and interpretation --- Turner, Nat --- Fiction --- Stewart, Maria W. --- Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher --- Brown, John