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AMERICAN fiction -- 19th century, DIVORCE in literature, SENTIMENTALISM in literature, NARRATION (Rhetoric), and AMERICAN fiction -- History & criticism

A literary criticism is presented of the 19th century American fiction books "A Modern Instance," by William Dean Howells and "The Deserted Wife," by E. (Emma) D. E. N. Southworth. Particular focus is given to the depiction of divorce within the aforementioned novels, including in regard to the authors' use of sentimentalism and narration.

NEW Deal, 1933-1939, WOMEN political activists -- United States, SENTIMENTALISM in literature, and MATERNALISM (Public welfare)

The article presents literary criticism of the books "Native Son" by Richard Wright and "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Particular focus is given to the novels' relationship to sentimental domestic fiction and to white women's activism during the New Deal era. According to the author, Wright's novel borrows from the sentimental fiction genre in order to show the social costs of sentimental activism. Topics discussed include maternalism, welfare, and racial inequality.

ATTRIBUTION of authorship, LYRIC poetry, AMERICAN poetry -- Women authors, 19TH century American poetry, and SENTIMENTALISM in literature

The article discusses a controversy surrounding the authorship of the 1860 lyric poem "Rock Me to Sleep" by Elizabeth Akers Allen. It examines claims by a New Jersey legislator named Alexander McWhorter Ball to have authored the poem and explores an article by Allen published in the newspaper the "New York Evening Post" in June of 1865. The author considers Allen's claims concerning her professionalism and Ball's amateur status. Other topics include the context of the nineteenth-century American literary marketplace, sentimental reading practices, and the success and circulation of the poem.

BOOKS & reading -- United States, FICTION -- History & criticism, READING -- Social aspects, SENTIMENTALISM in literature, EMOTIONS in literature, and NINETEENTH century

An essay on novel reading and opposition to novel reading in the U.S. in the antebellum period is presented. It examines anxieties concerning the affective power of novels, commenting on sentimentality and emotions. The author also reflects on concerns about isolation allegedly brought about by novel reading.

FICTION, CRITICISM, SENTIMENTALISM in literature, and LITERATURE

Focuses on novels by Theodore Dreiser in which he created a sentimental heroin Aileen Butler. Criticism of such novels by some conservative critics; Performance of novels by Dreiser when they were published; Sentimentalism in Dreiser's novels.

AUTHORS, SENTIMENTALISM in literature, POETRY (Literary form), and LITERATURE

Focuses on the sentimentalism in poems of William Carlos Williams. Presentation of a sense of sustained intense excitement in poems of the 'Al Que Quiere'; Emotions in the poem 'To Waken an Old Lady.'