Twentieth-century sentimentalism : narrative appropriation in American literature /
Williamson, Jennifer A., 1978-
Twentieth-century sentimentalism : narrative appropriation in American literature / Jennifer A. Williamson. - New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource. - American Literatures Initiative .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Standing together, side by side: Grace Lumpkin's To make my bread -- Not plough-shares but people: Josephine Johnson's Now in November -- His home is not the land: caretaking, domesticity, and gender in John Steinbeck's The grapes of wrath -- Forged in a crucible of suffering: Margaret Walker's Jubilee -- Octavia Butler's Kindred: my face too was wet with tears -- Toni Morrison's Beloved: feeling how it must have felt to her mother.
9780813562995 9781306189880
American literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Sentimentalism in literature.
Electronic Books.
PS228 / .T846 2014
Twentieth-century sentimentalism : narrative appropriation in American literature / Jennifer A. Williamson. - New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource. - American Literatures Initiative .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Standing together, side by side: Grace Lumpkin's To make my bread -- Not plough-shares but people: Josephine Johnson's Now in November -- His home is not the land: caretaking, domesticity, and gender in John Steinbeck's The grapes of wrath -- Forged in a crucible of suffering: Margaret Walker's Jubilee -- Octavia Butler's Kindred: my face too was wet with tears -- Toni Morrison's Beloved: feeling how it must have felt to her mother.
This book 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 clichés and ideals.
9780813562995 9781306189880
American literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Sentimentalism in literature.
Electronic Books.
PS228 / .T846 2014