TY - BOOK AU - Williamson,Jennifer A. TI - Twentieth-century sentimentalism: narrative appropriation in American literature T2 - American Literatures Initiative SN - 9780813562995 AV - PS228 .T846 2014 PY - 2014/// CY - New Brunswick, New Jersey PB - Rutgers University Press KW - American literature KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Sentimentalism in literature KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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; 2; b N2 -

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.

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