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02787aam a2200361 i 4500 001 0141D16E440211EF98CC15ED37ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240717010108 008 230519t20242024stka b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1399507990 020 $a 9781399507998 035 $a (OCoLC)1379266387 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d OCLCO $d YDX $d OCLCO $d PSC $d JHE $d OCLCO $d NUI $d SILO 050 4 $a PS169.R43 $b M36 2024 082 04 $a 810.912 $2 23 100 1 $a Manning, Nicholas, $d 1982- $e author. 245 14 $a The artifice of affect : $b American realist literature and emotional truth / $c Nicholas Manning. 264 1 $a Edinburgh : $b Edinburgh University Press, $c [2024] 300 $a 286 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Modern American Literature and the New Twentieth Century 520 $a "Is 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-273) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction : Against true feeling -- Can realism speak of affect? -- Beyond natural feeling : the body as artifice -- Inimitable affect : on the mimesis of emotion -- Myths of emotional equilibrium -- Medicalisation, pathologisation and the intoxicated self -- Conclusion : The theatre of the affective mind. 650 0 $a Realism in literature. 650 0 $a American literature $x History and criticism. 650 7 $a American literature $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807113 650 7 $a Realism in literature $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01091237 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 776 08 $i Electronic version: $a MANNING, NICHOLAS. $t Artifice of Affect. $d Edinburgh University Press 2024 $z 9781399508018 $w (OCoLC)1416153563 830 0 $a Modern American literature and the new twentieth century 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240717011741.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0141D16E440211EF98CC15ED37ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search