Twentieth-century sentimentalism : narrative appropriation in American literature / Jennifer A. Williamson.

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Williamson, Jennifer A, 1978- [Author]

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780813562995
9781306189880

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LOC classification:

PS228 .T846 2014

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Contents:

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.

Subject: <DIV><p style=""margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:150%"" class=""MsoNormal"">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. </div>

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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.

<DIV><p style=""margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:150%"" class=""MsoNormal"">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. </div>

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