| Author | : Glenn Hendler |
| Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780807849217 |
Explores "logic of sympathy" in novels by Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, T.S. Arthur, Martin Delany, Horatio Alger, Fanny Fern, Nathaniel Parker Willis, Henry James, Mark Twain, and William Dean Howells.
| Author | : Glenn Hendler |
| Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2003-04-03 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0807860220 |
In this book, Glenn Hendler explores what he calls the "logic of sympathy" in novels by Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, T. S. Arthur, Martin Delany, Horatio Alger, Fanny Fern, Nathaniel Parker Willis, Henry James, Mark Twain, and William Dean Howells. For these nineteenth-century writers, he argues, sympathetic identification was not strictly an individual, feminizing, and private feeling but the quintessentially public sentiment--a transformative emotion with the power to shape social institutions and political movements. Uniting current scholarship on gender in nineteenth-century American culture with historical and theoretical debates on the definition of the public sphere in the period, Hendler shows how novels taught diverse readers to "feel right," to experience their identities as male or female, black or white, middle or working class, through a sentimental, emotionally based structure of feeling. He links novels with such wide-ranging cultural and political discourses as the temperance movement, feminism, and black nationalism. Public Sentiments demonstrates that, whether published for commercial reasons or for higher moral and aesthetic purposes, the nineteenth-century American novel was conceived of as a public instrument designed to play in a sentimental key.
| Author | : András Sajó |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 396 |
| Release | : 2011-01-01 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0300139268 |
constitutional meaning, Sajo has extended to the realm of law the emerging trend that recognizes the fallibility of rational behavior. --
| Author | : Mary Layton Atkinson |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 83 |
| Release | : 2021-11-11 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1108877281 |
A central question in political representation is whether government responds to the people. To understand that, we need to know what the government is doing, and what the people think of it. We seek to understand a key question necessary to answer those bigger questions: How does American public opinion move over time? We posit three patterns of change over time in public opinion, depending on the type of issue. Issues on which the two parties regularly disagree provide clear partisan cues to the public. For these party-cue issues we present a slight variation on the thermostatic theory from (Soroka and Wlezien (2010); Wlezien (1995)); our “implied thermostatic model.” A smaller number of issues divide the public along lines unrelated to partisanship, and so partisan control of government provides no relevant clue. Finally, we note a small but important class of issues which capture response to cultural shifts.
| Author | : Beatrice De Graaf |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 409 |
| Release | : 2015-02-11 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 131767328X |
This volume explores the way governments endeavoured to build and maintain public support for the war in Afghanistan, combining new insights on the effects of strategic narratives with an exhaustive series of case studies. In contemporary wars, with public opinion impacting heavily on outcomes, strategic narratives provide a grid for interpreting the why, what and how of the conflict. This book asks how public support for the deployment of military troops to Afghanistan was garnered, sustained or lost in thirteen contributing nations. Public attitudes in the US, Canada, Australia and Europe towards the use of military force were greatly shaped by the cohesiveness and content of the strategic narratives employed by national policy-makers. Assessing the ability of countries to craft a successful strategic narrative, the book addresses the following key areas: 1) how governments employ strategic narratives to gain public support; 2) how strategic narratives develop during the course of the conflict; 3) how these narratives are disseminated, framed and perceived through various media outlets; 4) how domestic audiences respond to strategic narratives; 5) how this interplay is conditioned by both events on the ground, in Afghanistan, and by structural elements of the domestic political systems. This book will be of much interest to students of international intervention, foreign policy, political communication, international security, strategic studies and IR in general.
| Author | : George Carslake Thompson |
| Publisher | : London : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 472 |
| Release | : 1886 |
| Genre | : Eastern question (Balkan) |
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| Author | : Brigitte Lebens Nacos |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 160 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9780742539839 |
After September 11, many in the American public and media zeroed in on Muslims in America and the world, irresponsibly linking_intentionally or not_Muslims at large with terrorism. This well-researched book explores this focus and its implications. At the same time, the authors do not leave out the opinion of Muslim Americans, exploring their views about the American media and its influence, their attitudes toward non-Muslim Americans and, just as important, their opinions on postD9/11 U.S. counterterrorist policies and practices. This book not only serves students and scholars in the fields of Middle East studies, media studies, and international communication but is also an enlightening read to anyone interested in mainstream America's perception of Muslims.
