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Author Lisa Mendelman

Lisa Mendelman

Lisa Mendelman is an Assistant Professor of English at Menlo College. Her writing appears in American Literary History, Arizona Quarterly, and Modern Fiction Studies. Her book project, Modern Sentimentalism: The Ironies of Female Character in Interwar America, chronicles the reinvention of the sentimental mode in interwar fiction.

Unaffected: Marilynne Robinson’s Postmodern Sentimentalism

Lisa Mendelman
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The opening lines to Marilynne Robinson’s 1980 novel Housekeeping famously locate the novel in two literary genealogies. Evoking the opener of Melville’s Moby Dick (1851) and invoking the Biblical figure of com... Read More...
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