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During the 1992 Democratic Convention and again while delivering Harvard University’s commencement address two years later, Vice President Al Gore shared with his audience a story that showed the effect of sentiment in his life. In telling how an accident involving his son had provided him with a revelation concerning the compassion of others, Gore effectively reconstructed himself as a typical, middle-class American for whom sympathy can lead to salvation. This contemporary reiteration of mid-nineteenth-century American sentimental discourse proves to be a fruitful point of departure for Mary Louise Kete’s argument that sentimentality has been an important and recurring form of cultural narrative that has helped to shape middle-class American life.Many scholars have written about the sentimental novel as a primarily female genre and have stressed its negative ideological aspects. Kete finds that in fact many men—from writers to politicians—participated in nineteenth-century sentimental culture. Importantly, she also recovers the utopian dimension of the phenomenon, arguing that literary sentimentality, specifically in the form of poetry, is the written trace of a broad cultural discourse that Kete calls “sentimental collaboration”—an exchange of sympathy in the form of gifts that establishes common cultural or intellectual ground. Kete reads the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Lydia Huntley Sigourney with an eye toward the deployment of sentimentality for the creation of Americanism, as well as for political and abolitionist ends. Finally, she locates the origins of sentimental collaboration in the activities of ordinary people who participated in mourning rituals—writing poetry, condolence letters, or epitaphs—to ease their personal grief.Sentimental Collaborations significantly advances prevailing scholarship on Romanticism, antebellum culture, and the formation of the American middle class. It will be of interest to scholars of American studies, American literature, cultural studies, and women’s studies.

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In an in-depth comparative analysis, Stefano Bartolini studies the history of socialism and working-class politics in Western Europe. While examining the social contexts, organizational structures and political developments of thirteen socialist experiences from the 1880s to the 1980s, he reconstructs the steps through which social conflict was translated and structured into an opposition, as well as how it developed its different organizational and ideological forms, and how it managed more or less successfully to mobilize its reference groups politically. Bartolini provides a comparative framework that structures the wealth of material available on the history of each unit and allows him to assess the relative weight of the complex explanatory factors.

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Aux yeux du monde, le Nicaragua échappe rarement à son image de petit pays pauvre de l'isthme centraméricain, destiné à ne faire la « Une » des journaux qu'en cas de révolution ou de catastrophe naturelle, comme l'a montré le passage du cyclone Mitch en octobre 1998. Pourtant, son histoire héroïque et tragique, mais aussi la force et la richesse de ses courants littéraires, font que l'ancienne « terre des lacs et des volcans » occupe une place à part dans l'imaginaire des Européens. C'est pour tenter de donner une réalité à cet imaginaire, mais aussi pour actualiser notre connaissance d'un pays qui condense les mutations actuelles de l'Amérique latine, que ce livre a vu lejour à la suite d'un colloque international organisé à Lorient par l'Université de Bretagne-Sud (novembre 1999). En croisant les regards d'historiens, de géographes, de sociologues, d'anthropologues, de politologues et de spécialistes de la littérature latino-américaine, il permettra au lecteur de franchir la frontière mythique du Rio Coco et de découvrir que, derrière les images d'Épinal ou la rhétorique révolutionnaire, il existe en Amérique centrale un vrai pays nommé Nicaragua. Habitualmente, Nicaragua esta considerada desde el extranjero como un pais pequefio y pobre de América Central, que no merece la atencion de los medios de comunicacion sino cuando ocurre una revolucién ο algun desastre natural, como fue el caso en octubre de 1998 con el huracân Mitch. Sin embargo, tanto por su historia heroica y trâgica como por la fuerza y riqueza de sus corrientes literarias, la antigua «tierra de lagos y volcanes» ocupa un lugar aparté en el imaginario de los Europeos. Después de un coloquio internacional organizado en la ciudad de Lorient (Francia) por la Université de Bretagne-Sud (noviembre de 1999), este libro sale a la luz con el doble objetivo de darle una realidad a este imaginario y de actualizar nuestro conocimiento de un pais que condensa las transformaciones actuales de America Latina.…

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