Twentieth-Century Sentimentalism

Jennifer A. Williamson

earliest edition we have, 2013 Rutgers University Press, 2013

Today{u2019}s critical establishment assumes that sentimentalism is an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literary mode that all but disappeared by the twentieth century. In this book, Jennifer Williamson argues that sentimentalism 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-...

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Twentieth-Century Sentimentalism edition · 2013 · Rutgers University Press · 9780813570594
Twentieth-Century Sentimentalism edition · 2013 · Rutgers University Press · 246 pages · 9780813562971
Twentieth-Century Sentimentalism edition · 2013 · Rutgers University Press · 9781306189880
Twentieth-Century Sentimentalism edition · 2013 · Rutgers University Press · 246 pages · 9780813562988
Twentieth-Century Sentimentalism edition · 2013 · Rutgers University Press · 9780813562995

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