... of deliberate futurity whatsoever. Slesinger’s intervention suggests a deep affinity between leftist collectivism and modernist individualism, despite their superficial antinomy: according to her, both dangerously extend a suspicion of sentiment into the negation of personhood. “This is the age...

...Deborah Nelson Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories , by Cassuto Leonard , Columbia University Press , 2009 . 328 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2010 Review Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories...

...Paul Giles Copyright © Hofstra University 2007 Sentimental Posthumanism: David Foster Wallace P au l G iles I f , as Edward W. Soja argued in 1989, postmodernism involved “the re­ assertion o f a critical spatial perspective in contemporary social theory” (2...

... set of terms is more appropriate for defining it: by pursuing the sentimental , Cather’s work produces an advanced form of the naive . These terms emerge from an aesthetic tradition that ranges from Friedrich Schiller through Hegel, Emerson, and Ruskin to Theodor Adorno. Applied across Cather’s work...

... feeling.” Wrong feeling is a peculiarly twentieth-century phenomenon—an enactment of the modernist allergy to sentiment that nonetheless takes up modernism’s key tropes. Manifesting as affective overflowing, it has no discernible locus in either self or world and yields a series of repetitive, frustrating...

... its apparent meanings or is essentially ironic in tone. Countering such polarized reactions, this essay takes seriously Dust Tracks ’ overt sentiments by placing them in the context of the abstract humanism that developed at midcentury to understand the particular forms of Hurston’s transracial...

..., a commitment to the idea that these histories are defined by racial sentiments against blacks and Jews, respectively. This essay considers Styron’s commitment to the economic explanation alongside the fate of that explanation in Robert William Fogel and Stanley Engerman’s controversial history of slavery, Time...

... tendencies among readers of the novel to condemn the ex-colored man stems from an investment in the trope of the “tragic mulatto”—a plot device that at once sentimentalizes the fates of biracial characters and links those fates inextricably to biology rather than ideology. Copyright © 2021 Hofstra...

..., it can also compromise the agency of white women, whose activism is mediated by the persistence of nineteenth-century ideals of sentimentalism and domesticity. [email protected] © 2023 Hofstra University 2023 Alice Walker domesticity Richard Wright Sara Ahmed sentimentalism...

... categorized as a writer of popular, sentimental fiction—that is, a member of the “dd mob of scribbling women” that Nathaniel Hawthorne so violently resented (qtd. in Myerson xiv). During Wharton’s lifetime, sentimental fiction, which had dominated the nineteenth-century American literary marketplace...

... for tantalizing glimpses of authentic experience” (340). Similarly, Marshall Boswell argues, “hip irony is itself ironized in such a way that the opposite of hip irony—that is, gooey sentiment—can emerge as the work’s indirectly intended mode” (17). While there is much to encourage such views, including...

... Copyright © 2017 Hofstra University 2017 The winner of this year’s prize is Heather Arvidson’s “Numb Modernism: Sentiment and the Intellectual Left in Tess Slesinger’s The Unpossessed .” The judge is Cristanne Miller, SUNY Distinguished Professor and Edward H. Butler Professor...

... on—exemplifies the most ambitious claims of his book: that early modernists’ attempts to escape the sentimental, whether of the utopian humanist (Eliot, Joyce) or aggressive antihumanist (Lewis, Pound) variety, gave rise in the works of late modernists “to an undertow in which the claims of feeling...

..., this new criticism—most appearing in the last 10 years or so—purports to rescue The Great Gatsby from the sentimental attrac­ tions of a universalized, imperial American identity. Like the scholarship it claims to challenge, however, this new criticism reveals the enduring hold of the Americanist...

... “in it,” as if the material reality of the Earth has become a kind of continuous obstruction. By carrying through the lilting momentum of these sentimental tropes and alliterative sounds to such a conclusion, Crane aligns Chaplin’s pantomime, overburdened with pathos, with movements where his own poetic speech seems...

...” (17). This discourse has been crucial to the reception o f Flush, in that the bad faith by which the Cartesian divide is maintained depends on the equation o f anthropomorphism w ith sentimentality: to view nonhum an animal consciousness in hum an terms is, ipso facto...

... Carrollian pathos too, sentimentality being generated by the very illogicality of this strange world” (2007: 117). 5 Minogue and Palmer (2018 : 64) cite, specifically, Kristeva’s Powers of Horror: An Essay on the Abject (1982), wherein she calls the corpse the “most powerfully affecting example...

... biography of his great-aunt, Marianne Thornton, where it runs throughout his nostalgic account of the Clapham Sect and its distinct blend of philanthropy, sentimentality, and moral con­ servatism.1 As a family portrait the work is perfectly balanced, at once gen­ erous and deeply sympathetic—even...

... repurposes multiple literary traditions, namely modernism, sentimentalism, and proletarianism. Because of the kinds of subjects these traditions presuppose, on their own they failed to speak to the politically, economically, and romantically abandoned population with whom Le Sueur is concerned. Where...

... ideological ends. The comic tropes ofWoolf’s “Friendships Gallery” (her emphasis on Violet’s physical height and persistent laugh, the disruptions of narrative time) as well as the biographer’s self-conscious rejection of sentimental and realistic narrative forms suggest the sketch’s...