Twentieth-Century Sentimentalism : Narrative Appropriation in American Literature /

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"Today's critical establishment assumes that sentimentalism is an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literary mode that all but disappeared by the twentieth century. In this book, Jennifer Williamson argues that sentimentalism is alive and well in the modern era. By examining working-class...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Williamson, Jennifer A., 1978-
Autor Corporativo: American Literatures Initiative
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Sentimentalism in literature.
American literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Books & Reading.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Litterature americaine > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Standing together, side by side: Grace Lumpkin's To make my bread
  • Not plough-shares but people: Josephine Johnson's Now in November
  • His home is not the land: caretaking, domesticity, and gender in John Steinbeck's The grapes of wrath
  • Forged in a crucible of suffering: Margaret Walker's Jubilee
  • Octavia Butler's Kindred: my face too was wet with tears
  • Toni Morrison's Beloved: feeling how it must have felt to her mother.

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