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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Mendelman, Lisa
Titre(s) : Modern sentimentalism [Texte imprimé] : affect, irony, and female authorship in interwar America / Lisa Mendelman
Édition : First edition
Publication : Oxford ; New York : Oxford university press, 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (vi, 245 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm
Collection : Oxford studies in American literary history
Lien à la collection : Oxford studies in American literary history
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
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. 0Reading 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
Sujet(s) : Sentimentalisme (littérature)
Littérature américaine -- Femmes écrivains -- Thèmes, motifs
Littérature américaine -- 1900-1945 -- Thèmes, motifs
Roman sentimental américain -- 1900-1945
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 0198849877. - ISBN 9780198849872 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45815772r
Notice n° :
FRBNF45815772
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