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OverviewIs emotional truth a damaging literary and cultural ideal? The Artifice of Affect proposes that valuing affective authenticity risks creating a homogenized self, encouraged to comply only with accepted moral beliefs. Similarly, when emotional truth is made the primary value of literature, literary texts too often become agents of conformity. Nowhere is this risk explored more fully than in a range of American realist texts from the Cold War to the twentieth century's end. For the works of writers such as James Baldwin, Saul Bellow, John Cheever, Kathleen Collins, Paula Fox, Ralph Ellison, or Richard Yates, formulate trenchant critiques of true feeling's aesthetic and social imperatives. The arguments at the heart of this book aim to re-frame emotional processes as visceral constructions, which should not be held to the standards of static ideals of accuracy, legitimacy, or veracity. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Nicholas ManningPublisher: Edinburgh University Press Imprint: Edinburgh University Press Dimensions: Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.490kg ISBN: 9781399507998ISBN 10: 1399507990 Pages: 296 Publication Date: 12 January 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsAn elegant, impressive account of American realism's encounters with the aesthetic and political challenges of representing emotion. Boldly anti-foundationalist in its critiques of universalizing approaches to literary value, Manning's book embraces bodily agency and the fluidity and meta-reflexivity of affective circuits, with far-reaching consequences for understanding the creation of literary and ethical meanings. --Adam J. Frank, University of British Columbia Author InformationNicholas Manning is Professor of American Literature at Université Grenoble Alpes and a fellow of the Institut universitaire de France. Editor in chief for literature, aesthetics and philosophy of the Revue Française d'Études Américaines, he is the author of Rhétorique de la sincérité. La poésie moderne en quête d'un langage vrai (Honoré Champion, 2013). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |