Rethinking Sympathy and Human Contact in Nineteenth-Century American Literature - Hawthorne, Douglass, Stowe, Dickinson

The book analyzes the evolution of antebellum literary explorations of sympathy and human contact in the 1850s and 1860s. It will appeal to undergraduates and scholars seeking new approaches to canonical American authors, psychological theorists of sympathy and empathy, and philosophers of moral philosophy.