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Aaron Ritzenberg, The Sentimental Touch: The Language of Feeling in the Age of Managerialism (New York: Fordham University Press, 2013, $35.00). Pp. 178. isbn082 3245 527.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 January 2015

KRYSTYNA MICHAEL
KRYSTYNA MICHAEL*
Affiliation:
City University of New York
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Journal of American Studies , Volume 49 , Issue 1 , February 2015 , pp. 203 - 205
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References

1 For a helpful overview of this critical shift see Hoeller's, Hildegard “From Agony to Ecstacy: The New Studies of American Sentimentality,” ESQ: Journal of the American Renaissance, 52, 4 (Fall 2006), 339–69CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 Fichtelberg's, JosephCritical Fictions: Sentiment and the American Market 1780–1870 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003)Google Scholar is another book that takes up the emergence of sentimental fiction as a reaction to economic conditions. Ritzenberg, though, traces its legacy in later works.