Lisa Mendelman

Modern Sentimentalism (eBook, ePUB)

Affect, Irony, and Female Authorship in Interwar America

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 divorc?e, 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780192589729
• Artikelnr.: 58401786

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

* 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