Sentimental Modernism: Women Writers and the Revolution of the Word

Contents: The sentimental and the modern : a common history -- Anarchy as a literary figure, anarchy as a female form / Emma Goldman -- Jouissance and the sentimental daughter / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Medusa and melancholy : the fatal allure of beauty in Louise Bogan's poetry -- Revolution, the woman, and the word / Kay Boyle -- The woman in nature and the subject of nonfiction / Annie Dillard -- The sentimental and the critical : maternal irony, Alice Walker, and a feminist conclusion.