The Sentimental Mode: Essays in Literature, Film and Television

by Jennifer Larson and Ashley Reed

Book Overview

This collection of new essay examines how authors of the 20th and 21st centuries continue the use of sentimental forms and tropes of 19th century literature. Current literary and cultural critical consensus seems to maintain that Americans engaged in a turn-of-the-century refutation of the sentimental mode; an analysis of 20th and 21st century narratives, however, reveals an ongoing use of sentimental expression that draws upon its ability to instruct...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 078647341X
• ISBN13: 9780786473410
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher