...Marta Figlerowicz Lisa Mendelman , Modern Sentimentalism: Affect, Irony, and Female Authorship in Interwar America , New York : Oxford University Press , 2019 . Copyright © 2021 by University of Oklahoma 2021 Anton Chekhov's “The Lady with the Dog” (1899) ponders the end...

...Nell Sullivan The trauma of 9/11 ushered in a new age of male-centered sentimentality. With its focus on a father's sacrificial love for his young son in a postapocalyptic setting, Cormac McCarthy's The Road reflects this shift to male-centered sentimentality. In The Road , McCarthy appropriates...

... . Halttunen Karen . Confidence Men and Painted Women: A Study of Middle-Class Culture in America, 1830-1870 . New Haven : Yale UP , 1982 . Harper Frances E.W. Iola Leroy . Boston : Beacon Press , 1987 . Hendler Glenn . Public Sentiments: Structures of Feeling in Nineteenth...

...Susan Rosenbaum The association of the cliché with a devalorized and feminized sentimentality—with feeling regarded as excessive, insincere, mechanized, or commercially debased—emerged in the late nineteenth century and was instrumental to the canonization of literary modernism in the 1940s...

...Martha C. Carpentier Biographical readings have sequestered Mansfield's satiric voice as dark other, but the relationship between satire and sentiment in her fiction is dialogic, meaning that both are double-voiced, not binaristically opposed. Countering gendered discussions of satire...

... intervenes in two overlapping conversations. On the one hand, it continues a tradition of women's poetic experimentation that seeks to revalue pregnancy and motherhood as viable topics for poetry while resisting sentimentalized and restrictive narratives through formal innovation; on the other, it continues...

... in which Kim’s protagonist operates, attempting to solve the case of her parents’ murder, is as treacherous as the world portrayed in early hard-boiled detective fiction. Kim has inherited from early hard-boiled crime fiction such elements as its rugged individualism, a cynical-but-sentimental worldview...

... . Beecher Catherine . (1841) 1842 . A Treatise on Domestic Economy, for the Use of Young Ladies at Home, and at School . Rev. ed. Boston : T. H. Webb . Berlant Lauren . 2008 . The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture . Durham, NC : Duke...

... , 1981 ): 479 - 486 . —. “Introduction.” Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Jacobs Harriet . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1987 . Walter Krista . “Surviving the Garret: Harriet Jacobs and the Critique of Sentiment.” American Transcendental Quarterly 8 : 3...

... of Indian reform, Ramona (1884). Retamar celebrates Marti's Ramona as marking the emer- gence of a feminist literature of sentimental reform, inspired by Harriet Beecher Stowe and Helen Hunt Jackson but extending to other, foundational fictions of Latin America. It is a tradition, heretofore...

... broadly, certain macro-lines of poetic convergence: staples of both are the reliance on irony and deep feelings the latter being the modern phrase analogous to the eighteenth century's invoking of sentiment and sentimentality. ANIMAL ELEGIES 33...

... Norcom Papers, North Carolina State Archives , 1838 . Nudelman Franny . “Harriet Jacobs and the Sentimental Politics of Female Suffering.” ELH 59 ( 1992 ): 939 - 64 . Parramore Thomas C. “Harriet Jacobs, James Norcom, and the Defense of Hierarchy.” Carolina Comments 38...

... up a dialogue between postcolonial bildung and bildung in the nineteenth-century European novel through frequent allusions to Flaubert's ([1869] 2004 ) Sentimental Education , a novel that serves both as a frame of comparison and a point of departure for Samar's trajectory of development...

... sentimentalization of love. Crucially, against such corrupt and sentimentalized love, Hardt and Negri understand love along the lines of Spinoza’s conception of joy as a constituent force. For Spi- noza, what is joyous is what enlarges the body’s capacities for action. Similarly, Hardt and Negri emphasize...

... interpreters a little too much. Against reductive readings of Douglas Johnson as a Black “poetess” or sentimental “lady poet,” Glaser's extended treatment of her poetry underscores the way her poems make self-conscious use of “the symbolic and cultural value of meter” (118). Glaser highlights “Black Woman...

... of Sentimentality in America . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Cabaret . 1972 . Directed by Fosse Bob . Los Angeles : Allied Artists . Chabon Michael . 2012 . The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay . New York : HarperCollins . Dancer in the Dark . 2000 . Directed...

... of the professional manage- rial class. Middlebrow culture offers its readers a “sentimental education” that encourages them to identify with the characters that represent figures from whom they are otherwise isolated by class and professional boundaries (261).5 Like Radway, Trilling believes...

... ): 17 - 23 . Rzepka Charles . The Self as Mind: Vision and Identity in Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Keats . Cambridge : Harvard UP , 1986 . Schiller Friedrich . `` On Naïve and Sentimental Poetry .'' Trans. Elias Julius A. . German Aesthetic and Literary Criticism...

..., was characterized. Consistent with these gestures, the Gothic often articulates an acute spirit of humanitarian sentiment and reform, directing this in particular against the barbaric, somewhat "Gothic" punitive practices of the unenlightened feudal, Catholic past. Interrogating the efficacy of torture...

... for movies.” Her aptly bracketed wordplay pre­sents one way to reconcile the earnest sentimentality that old Hollywood films represented for and elicited in Puig with the critical engagement that this sentimentality seem- ingly disallows yet motivates his novels. This complex relationship is brought...