Twentieth-Century Sentimentalism: Narrative Appropriation in American Literature

by Jennifer A. Williamson

Book Overview

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"