Table of Contents

Introduction: Sex Without Consequence: American Fiction and Femininity Between the Wars 1: Willa Cather and The New Woman's 'Un-sentimental Sort of Success' 2: The Old Fashioned Flapper: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Sentimental Satire 3: Free Love and Hard-Boiled Sentiment 4: Modern Sentimentalism and the New Negro Conclusion: After Happily Ever After: Divorce, Maternity, and the Future of the Modern Woman Appendix

About the Author

Lisa Mendelman is an Assistant Professor of English at Menlo College. She researches and teaches at the intersections of science and affect in American literature since 1865. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in American Literary History, Modernism/modernity, Arizona Quarterly, and Modern Fiction Studies.

Reviews

this collection provokes thought about the scope of diverse female authors, irony, sentimentalism, modernism, femininity and affect studies. Modern Sentimentalism encourages its readers to reconsider the value and influence of pre-modernist conventions and practices, which may serve as important clues to the analysis of modern works. * Jun Qiang, University of York, The Modernist Review *