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.