The Sentimental Touch: The Language of Feeling in the Age of Managerialism

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Baldwin, James, 18 Barnard, Rita, 76, 100, 115, 154n38 Barthes, Roland, 9, 120–22, 127, 133n31 Barton, Arthur, 70 Baudrillard, Jean, 153n31 Baumgarten, Alexander, 17 Beecher, Catharine, 138n70 Bell, Michael, 75, 148n37 Bell, Michael Davitt, 141n22 Bender, Thomas, 151n4 Benjamin, Walter, 79, 115 Berlant, Lauren, 10, 34–35, 143n35, 143n41 Bloom, Harold, 115, 152n22 Blumin, Stuart, 134n39 body: and capitalism, 8–9, 21–24, 41, 56, 84, 93–96, 101, 103–5; and managerialism, 7, 82–85, 93, 103–5, 111, 120, 123; and modernism, 14–15, 75–77, 81, 87, 90–92, 94, 101–5, 116, 122–23; and sentimentalism, 1–4, 7, 9, 11–13, 16–41, 50, 53–64, 75, 85–88, 93–94, 97, 110, 120. See also touch Boym, Svetlana, 150n57 Braverman, Harry, Labor and Monopoly Capital, 66, 86, 93–94, 104, 131n20, 139n9, 143n37, 151n3, 151n9 Brodhead, Richard, 40, 135n27, 138n70 Brooks, Peter, 144n56 Brooks, Van Wyck, 74, 142n30 Brown, Herbert Ross, 24, 32 Budd, Louis J., 48, 140n22 Aaron, Daniel, 99 abolitionism, 27, 35, 41 Adorno, 113–15, 132n31 aesthetics, 4, 17, 22–23, 28–29, 65, 74–75 affect. See feeling Alcoholics Anonymous, 125–27, 155n14 alienation: and the body, 82–85, 102–5, 122–25; and bureaucratic structure, 3–5, 7–9, 14–15, 45, 71–77, 91, 93–108, 131n21; and modernism, 116–17 Althusser, Louis, 29, 97, 152n15 Anderson, Sherwood, 11–12, 14, 71–73, 96, 122, 124, 146n11; A Story Teller’s Story, 73, 78–79, 149n44; Letters, 146n13; Memoirs, 146n13; Notebook, 148n35; Winesburg, Ohio, 11, 14, 70–92, 94, 109, 112, 113, 123–24 anonymity, 5, 64, 91, 93, 95, 98, 100–102, 113, 124, 126 Arac, Jonathan, 142n31 aristocracy, decline of, 4, 21–23, 39, 43 Aristotle, 6 Arrow, Kenneth, 131n19 artisan. See labor, as craft Atlas, Judith Martin, 150n55 Attridge, Derek, 148n37 Auerbach, Erich, 48 authenticity: of the body, 37, 40; of the moral sense, 57–61; of sentimentalism, 17, 29, 48, 50, 122–23. See also sincerity Index 174 / index Common Sense philosophy, 18–19, 31, 49. See also moral sense philosophy consumerism, 2, 91, 119–122. See also business culture; capitalism; commercial culture convention, literary, 4, 8, 10, 17–18, 50, 95, 102, 111–12, 122–23; moral force of, 68–69, 126–27 Cooper, James Fenimore, The Last of the Mohicans, 25–26, 36–37 corporate culture. See bureaucracy; business culture; managerialism Courtemanche, Eleanor, 131n15 Cowley, Malcolm, 153n22 Cox, James, 140n12 craft. See labor, as craft Crane, Gregg D., 31, 137n49 Crane, Hart, 85 crying, in literature, 20–21, 31–33, 36–38, 53, 62–64, 83, 86–87, 103 Dalrymple, Theodore, 99 death scenes, 40, 106, 109, 114–15 Declaration of Independence, 49 DeVoto, Bernard, 142n30, 143n39 Dewey, John, 12, 134n41 Dillon, Elizabeth Maddock, 23, 24 domesticity, 3, 8, 11, 24, 52–53; in Anderson, 150n55; in Stowe, 32–34; in Twain, 50–51, 57–60, 62, 144n49; in West, 105, 114 Dos Passos, John, 140n10 Douglas, Ann, 18, 145n59 Douglass, Frederick, 145n67 Doyno, Victor, 44, 56, 144n50 Dreiser, Theodore, 48–49; Sister Carrie, 141n26 Drucker, Peter D., 6, 139n9 Duffey, Bernard, 146n11 Eagleton, Terry, The Ideology of the Aesthetic, 8–9, 17, 22, 29 economy, U.S., 4–7, 11, 13, 38, 41, 60, 71–73, 78, 95–96; recurring crisis in, 134n39. See also capitalism Edenbaum, Robert, 112 Eliot, T. S., 65, 74–75, 152n22 emotion. See feeling etiquette. See manners Fairfax, Beatrice, 99, 152n19 feeling, in literature, 1–4, 7–15, 46–47, 71, 81, 84–92; and capitalism, 110, Burbank, Rex, 150n58 bureaucracy, 4–7, 12, 43, 45, 51, 96–97, 106–7, 114, 117, 119; as beyond human intervention, 113–14, 155n3; as culturally pervasive, 14–15, 96–97, 130n12; and feeling, 111, 117; and narrative, 71, 105–8, 124. See also business culture; managerialism Buroway, Michael, 151n3 Bush, George W., 121 business culture, 3, 11–12, 84; emergence of, 72–74; and feeling, 103–4, 121; as pervasive, 4–7, 14–15, 96–97, 130n10, 130n12, 140n16. See also bureaucracy; capitalism; commercial culture; managerialism business history. See managerialism, history of Camfield, Gregg, 19, 23, 34, 50, 54, 137n56, 141n22 capitalism: and the body, 8–9, 21–24, 41, 56, 84, 93–96, 101, 103–5; and feeling, 110, 132n25; and literature, 9, 11–15, 41, 71–74, 90–92, 99–100, 105–8, 124, 132n29; and religion, 96–100, 119, 153n26; and sentimentalism, 6–7, 21–24, 52–53, 77, 93–95, 99–108; and...