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Twentieth-Century Sentimentalism: Narrative Appropriation in American Literature - The American Literatures Initiative Jennifer A. Williamson
Twentieth-Century Sentimentalism: Narrative Appropriation in American Literature - The American Literatures Initiative
Jennifer A. Williamson
Argues that sentimentalism, an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literary mode, is alive and well in the modern era. By examining working-class literature that adopts the rhetoric of "feeling right" in order to promote a proletarian or humanist ideology as well as neo-slave narratives that wrestle with the legacy of slavery and cultural definitions of African American families, it explores the ways contemporary authors engage with familiar sentimental cliches and ideals.
232 pages, illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | December 15, 2013 |
| ISBN13 | 9780813562988 |
| Publishers | Rutgers University Press |
| Pages | 256 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 18 mm · 498 g |