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Numb Modernism: Sentiment and the Intellectual Left in Tess Slesinger’s The Unpossessed

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Heather Arvidson
Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (3): 239–266.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0041462X-4219918
Published: 01 September 2017
...Heather Arvidson This essay traces a critique of anti-sentimentalist leftist impersonality in the critically underestimated and best-selling novel The Unpossessed (1934). Tess Slesinger’s satire parodies the deadened affect that results from programmatic refusals of subjectivity and personal life...
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On the Prize Essay

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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (3): 237–238.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0041462X-4219909
Published: 01 September 2017
...-Century Literature . § “Numb Modernism”’s conjoining of affect theory, Marxist theory, feminist readings of modernism and the radical left, and intertextual location of the novel in the 1930s produces an exemplary reading of Slesinger’s satirical novel and a persuasive analysis of previously under...
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Modern American Abortion Narratives and the Century of Silence

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Meg Gillette
Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (4): 663–687.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0041462X-2012-1004
Published: 01 December 2012
..., William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, Sinclair Lewis, Claude McKay, Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, William Carlos Williams, Floyd Dell, John Dos Passos, Josephine Herbst, Meridel Le Sueur, Ruth McKenney, Tess Slesinger, Agnes Smedley, Jessie Fauset, George...
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