Twentieth-century Sentimentalism: Narrative Appropriation in American Literature

Twentieth-century Sentimentalism: Narrative Appropriation in American Literature

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Twentieth-century Sentimentalism: Narrative Appropriation in American Literature

Twentieth-century Sentimentalism: Narrative Appropriation in American Literature

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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.

Author(s): Jennifer A. Williamson
Publisher: American Literatures Initiativ
Published: 2014
Pages: 232
Categories: Literary Criticism

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