Twentieth-Century Sentimentalism : : Narrative Appropriation in American Literature / / Jennifer A. Williamson.
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 liter...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The American Literatures Initiative
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (246 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Grace Lumpkin's To Make My Bread: Standing Together, Side by Side
- 3. Josephine Johnson's Now in November: Not Plough-Shares but People
- 4. Caretaking, Domesticity, and Gender in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath: "His Home Is Not the Land"
- 5. Margaret Walker's Jubilee: "Forged in a Crucible of Suffering"
- 6. Octavia Butler's Kindred: "My Face Too Was Wet with Tears"
- 7. Toni Morrison's Beloved: "Feeling How It Must Have Felt to Her Mother"
- 8. Conclusion
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- About the Author