JENNIFER A. WILLIAMSON, PhD, is the author of numerous articles, including “‘His home is not the land’: Caretaking, Domesticity, and Gender in The Grapes of Wrath,” and editor of Sentimentalism and the Anti-Sentimental in 20th and 21st Century America.

“Compellingly juxtaposing proletarian and neo-slave novels, Jennifer Williamson's book breaks important new ground in redefining and reevaluating the sentimental tradition within literary and American studies of the twentieth century.” - Kristin J. Jacobson (author of Neodomestic American Fiction) "Jennifer Williamson writes with unusual range. Drawing concepts from the nineteenth century, she gives excellent readings of twentieth century texts, inclusive of gender, race, and traditions. Twentieth-Century Sentimentalism is an important book." - Linda Wagner-Martin (author of "Favored Strangers": Gertrude Stein and Her Family) "A helpful addition to the literature of sentimentalism. Recommended." (Choice) “Compellingly juxtaposing proletarian and neo-slave novels, Jennifer Williamson's book breaks important new ground in redefining and reevaluating the sentimental tradition within literary and American studies of the twentieth century.” - Kristin J. Jacobson (author of Neodomestic American Fiction) "Jennifer Williamson writes with unusual range. Drawing concepts from the nineteenth century, she gives excellent readings of twentieth century texts, inclusive of gender, race, and traditions. Twentieth-Century Sentimentalism is an important book." - Linda Wagner-Martin (author of "Favored Strangers": Gertrude Stein and Her Family) "A helpful addition to the literature of sentimentalism. Recommended." (Choice)

• Acknowledgments1. Introduction2. Grace Lumpkin's To Make My Bread: Standing Together, Side by Side3. Josephine Johnson's Now in November: Not Plough-Shares but People4. Caretaking, Domesticity, and Gender in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath: "His Home Is Not the Land"5. Margaret Walker's Jubilee: "Forged in a Crucible of Suffering"6. Octavia Butler's Kindred: "My Face Was Too Wet with Tears"7. Toni Morrison's Beloved: "Feeling How It Must Have Felt to Her Mother"8. ConclusionNotesWorks CitedIndex

JENNIFER A. WILLIAMSON, PhD, is the author of numerous articles, including “‘His home is not the land’: Caretaking, Domesticity, and Gender in The Grapes of Wrath,” and editor of Sentimentalism and the Anti-Sentimental in 20th and 21st Century America.

“Compellingly juxtaposing proletarian and neo-slave novels, Jennifer Williamson's book breaks important new ground in redefining and reevaluating the sentimental tradition within literary and American studies of the twentieth century.” - Kristin J. Jacobson (author of Neodomestic American Fiction) "Jennifer Williamson writes with unusual range. Drawing concepts from the nineteenth century, she gives excellent readings of twentieth century texts, inclusive of gender, race, and traditions. Twentieth-Century Sentimentalism is an important book." - Linda Wagner-Martin (author of "Favored Strangers": Gertrude Stein and Her Family) "A helpful addition to the literature of sentimentalism. Recommended." (Choice) “Compellingly juxtaposing proletarian and neo-slave novels, Jennifer Williamson's book breaks important new ground in redefining and reevaluating the sentimental tradition within literary and American studies of the twentieth century.” - Kristin J. Jacobson (author of Neodomestic American Fiction) "Jennifer Williamson writes with unusual range. Drawing concepts from the nineteenth century, she gives excellent readings of twentieth century texts, inclusive of gender, race, and traditions. Twentieth-Century Sentimentalism is an important book." - Linda Wagner-Martin (author of "Favored Strangers": Gertrude Stein and Her Family) "A helpful addition to the literature of sentimentalism. Recommended." (Choice)

• Acknowledgments1. Introduction2. Grace Lumpkin's To Make My Bread: Standing Together, Side by Side3. Josephine Johnson's Now in November: Not Plough-Shares but People4. Caretaking, Domesticity, and Gender in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath: "His Home Is Not the Land"5. Margaret Walker's Jubilee: "Forged in a Crucible of Suffering"6. Octavia Butler's Kindred: "My Face Was Too Wet with Tears"7. Toni Morrison's Beloved: "Feeling How It Must Have Felt to Her Mother"8. ConclusionNotesWorks CitedIndex

JENNIFER A. WILLIAMSON, PhD, is the author of numerous articles, including “‘His home is not the land’: Caretaking, Domesticity, and Gender in The Grapes of Wrath,” and editor of Sentimentalism and the Anti-Sentimental in 20th and 21st Century America.

“Compellingly juxtaposing proletarian and neo-slave novels, Jennifer Williamson's book breaks important new ground in redefining and reevaluating the sentimental tradition within literary and American studies of the twentieth century.” - Kristin J. Jacobson (author of Neodomestic American Fiction) "Jennifer Williamson writes with unusual range. Drawing concepts from the nineteenth century, she gives excellent readings of twentieth century texts, inclusive of gender, race, and traditions. Twentieth-Century Sentimentalism is an important book." - Linda Wagner-Martin (author of "Favored Strangers": Gertrude Stein and Her Family) "A helpful addition to the literature of sentimentalism. Recommended." (Choice) “Compellingly juxtaposing proletarian and neo-slave novels, Jennifer Williamson's book breaks important new ground in redefining and reevaluating the sentimental tradition within literary and American studies of the twentieth century.” - Kristin J. Jacobson (author of Neodomestic American Fiction) "Jennifer Williamson writes with unusual range. Drawing concepts from the nineteenth century, she gives excellent readings of twentieth century texts, inclusive of gender, race, and traditions. Twentieth-Century Sentimentalism is an important book." - Linda Wagner-Martin (author of "Favored Strangers": Gertrude Stein and Her Family) "A helpful addition to the literature of sentimentalism. Recommended." (Choice)

• Acknowledgments1. Introduction2. Grace Lumpkin's To Make My Bread: Standing Together, Side by Side3. Josephine Johnson's Now in November: Not Plough-Shares but People4. Caretaking, Domesticity, and Gender in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath: "His Home Is Not the Land"5. Margaret Walker's Jubilee: "Forged in a Crucible of Suffering"6. Octavia Butler's Kindred: "My Face Was Too Wet with Tears"7. Toni Morrison's Beloved: "Feeling How It Must Have Felt to Her Mother"8. ConclusionNotesWorks CitedIndex