Twentieth-century sentimentalism : narrative appropriation in Amererican literature /
Williamson, Jennifer A.,1978-
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-226) and index.
Grace Lumpkin's To make my bread : standing together, side by side -- Josephine Johnson's Now in November : not plough-shares but people -- Caretaking, domesticity, and gender in John Steinbeck's The grapes of wrath : "His home is not the land" -- Margaret Walker's Jubilee : "Forged in a crucible of suffering" -- Octavia Butler's Kindred:"My face too was wet with tears" -- Toni Morrison's Beloved: "Feeling how it must have felt to her mother".
American literature
Sentimentalism in literature.