Modern Sentimentalism - Affect, Irony, and Female Authorship in Interwar America

List of contents

• Introduction: Sex Without Consequence: American Fiction and Femininity Between the Wars


• 1: Willa Cather and The New Woman's 'Un-sentimental Sort of Success'


• 2: The Old Fashioned Flapper: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Sentimental Satire


• 3: Free Love and Hard-Boiled Sentiment


• 4: Modern Sentimentalism and the New Negro


• Conclusion: After Happily Ever After: Divorce, Maternity, and the Future of the Modern Woman


• Appendix

About the author

Lisa Mendelman is an Assistant Professor of English at Menlo College. She researches and teaches at the intersections of science and affect in American literature since 1865. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in American Literary History, Modernism/modernity, Arizona Quarterly, and Modern Fiction Studies.

Summary

Modern Sentimentalism discusses how the iconic modern woman as presented in interwar American literature. It reveals how this literary figure carries the weight of sentiment and how the question of feminine feeling is central to modernism's preoccupations and styles.

Additional text

this collection provokes thought about the scope of diverse female authors, irony, sentimentalism, modernism, femininity and affect studies. Modern Sentimentalism encourages its readers to reconsider the value and influence of pre-modernist conventions and practices, which may serve as important clues to the analysis of modern works.

Product details

• Authors: Lisa Mendelman, Lisa (Assistant Professor of English Mendelman
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.12.2019
• EAN: 9780198849872
• ISBN: 978-0-19-884987-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Oxford Studies in American Literary History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000