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Author Mendelman, Lisa, author.

Title Modern sentimentalism : affect, irony, and female authorship in interwar America / Lisa Mendelman
Edition First edition
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Series Oxford studies in American literary history
Oxford studies in American literary history.
Contents Introduction: sex without consequence: American fiction and femininity between the wars -- Willa Cather and the new woman's "un-sentimental sort of success" -- The old-fashioned flapper: Gentlemen prefer blondes and sentimental satire -- Free love and hard-boiled sentiment -- Modern sentimentalism and the new negro -- Conclusion: after happily ever after: divorce, maternity, and the future of the modern woman
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
Notes This edition previously issued in print: 2019
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Audience Specialized
Notes Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 17, 2020)
Subject Cather, Willa, 1873-1947. Song of the lark
Loos, Anita, 1893-1981. Gentlemen prefer blondes.
Newman, Frances, 1883-1928. Hard-Boiled Virgin
Fauset, Jessie Redmon. Plum bun.
SUBJECT Nervo, Amado gnd
Universidad Sergio Arboleda gnd
Gentlemen prefer blondes (Loos, Anita) fast
Subject American literature -- Women authors -- History and critcism
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Sentimentalism in literature.
American literature
Sentimentalism in literature
Empfindsamkeit
Frauenliteratur
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
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