Modern sentimentalism : affect, irony, and female authorship in interwar America /

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...

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Main Author: Mendelman, Lisa (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Oxford studies in American literary history.
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