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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Modern sentimentalism
    sub title: affect, irony, and female authorship in interwar America
  name:
    name part: Mendelman, Lisa
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2019
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vi, 245 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: Modern Sentimentalism examines how American female novelists reinvented sentimentalism in the modernist period. Just as the birth of the modern woman has long been imagined as the death of sentimental feeling, modernist literary innovation has been understood to reject sentimental aesthetics. Modern Sentimentalism reframes these perceptions of cultural evolution. Taking up icons such as the New Woman, the flapper, the free lover, the New Negro woman and the divorcee, this book argues that these figures embody aspects of a traditional sentimentality while also recognizing sentiment as incompatible with ideals of modern selfhood. These double binds equally beleaguer the protagonists and shape the styles of writers like Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Anita Loos and Jessie Fauset. 'Modern sentimentalism' thus translates nineteenth-century conventions of sincerity and emotional fulfillment into the skeptical, self-conscious modes of interwar cultural production. Reading canonical and under-examined novels in concert with legal briefs, scientific treatises and other transatlantic period discourse, and combining traditional and quantitative methods of archival research, Modern Sentimentalism demonstrates that feminine feeling, far from being peripheral to twentieth-century modernism, animates its central principles and preoccupations.
  note: Lisa Mendelman.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Sentimentalism in literature
  subject:
    topic: American literature
    topic: Women authors
  subject:
    topic: American literature
    temporal: 20th century
    topic: History and criticism
  classification: 813.309
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Oxford studies in American literary history
  identifier: 0198849877
  identifier: 9780198849872
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 190610
    record change date: 20200319152403.0
    record identifier: in00004082388