The Sentimental Novel | Further Reading
FURTHER READING
Baym, Nina. "Susan Warner, Anna Warner, and Maria Cummins." In her Woman's Fiction: A Guide to Novels by and about Women in America, 1820-1870, pp. 140-74. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1978.
Biographical and critical survey of the lives and works of Cummins and the Warner sisters.
Brown, Herbert Ross. The Sentimental Novel in America 1789-1860. New York: Pageant Books, 1959, 407 p.
Provides a general history of the development of the sentimental novel from its British roots to the height of its popularity in America. The chapter "The Sentimental Compromise" is included in the above entry.
Cowie, Alexander. "Heart and Home: Domestic, Sentimental, Didactic Fiction." In his The Rise of the American Novel, pp. 9-21. New York: American Book Co., 1951.
Explores the historical conditions that first yielded American...
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