TY - BOOK AU - Williamson,Jennifer A. ED - Project Muse. TI - Twentieth-century sentimentalism: narrative appropriation in American literature T2 - American Literatures Initiative SN - 9780813562995 AV - PS228.S38 W55 2013 U1 - 810.9/384 23 PY - 2014///] CY - New Brunswick, New Jersey PB - Rutgers University Press KW - Sentimentalism in literature KW - American literature KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Standing together, side by side: Grace Lumpkin's To make my bread -- Not plough-shares but people: Josephine Johnson's Now in November -- His home is not the land: caretaking, domesticity, and gender in John Steinbeck's The grapes of wrath -- Forged in a crucible of suffering: Margaret Walker's Jubilee -- Octavia Butler's Kindred: my face too was wet with tears -- Toni Morrison's Beloved: feeling how it must have felt to her mother UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813562995/ ER -