{"product_id":"the-naked-communist-aaron-ritzenberg-9780823245529","title":"The Naked Communist: Cold War Modernism and the Politics of Popular Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003eBetween 1850 and 1940, with the rise of managerial capitalism in the United States, the most powerful businesses ceased to be family owned, instead becoming sprawling organizations controlled by complex bureaucracies. Sentimental literature--work written specifically to convey and inspire deep feeling--does not seem to fit with a swiftly bureaucratizing society. Surprisingly, though, sentimental language persisted in American literature, even as a culture of managed systems threatened to obscure the power of individual affect. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Sentimental Touch explores the strange, enduring power of sentimental language in the face of a rapidly changing culture. Analyzing novels by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, Sherwood Anderson, and Nathanael West, the book demonstrates that sentimental language changes but remains powerful, even in works by authors who self-consciously write against the sentimental tradition. Sentimental language has an afterlife, enduring in American literature long after authors and critics declared it dead, insisting that human feeling can resist a mechanizing culture and embodying, paradoxically, the way that literary conventions themselves become mechanical and systematic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Aaron Ritzenberg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0823245527\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780823245529\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e American Literatures Initiative\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/24\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2013","brand":"Aaron Ritzenberg","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47427431858431,"sku":"9780823245529","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_03641eb7-8dc8-4aed-823c-07ed5c298202.jpg?v=1761579511","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-naked-communist-aaron-ritzenberg-9780823245529","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}