Twentieth-Century Sentimentalism: Narrative Appropriation in American Literature
(Part of the The American Literatures Initiative Series)
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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 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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:081356297X
ISBN13:9780813562971
Release Date:December 2013
Publisher:Rutgers University Press
Length:246 Pages
Weight:0.81 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
Grade Range:Postsecondary
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