{"product_id":"modern-sentimentalism-affect-irony-and-female-authorship-in-interwar-america-hardcover","title":"Modern Sentimentalism: Affect, Irony, and Female Authorship in Interwar America - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLisa Mendelman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eModern Sentimentalism\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003cem\u003eModern Sentimentalism\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eReading 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, \u003cem\u003eModern Sentimentalism\u003c\/em\u003e demonstrates that feminine feeling, far from being peripheral to twentieth-century modernism, animates its central principles and preoccupations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLisa Mendelman, \u003cem\u003eAssistant Professor of English, Menlo College\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLisa 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 \u003cem\u003eAmerican Literary History, Modernism\/modernity, Arizona Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eModern Fiction Studies\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9.7 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 24, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52703570952499,"sku":"9780198849872","price":186.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/NkRocG5TRURleHpnMTVmKzFBMmp6Zz09.webp?v=1763330412","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/modern-sentimentalism-affect-irony-and-female-authorship-in-interwar-america-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}