Sentiment and Sociability : The Language of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century

Name: Sentiment and Sociability
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780198122524
Price: 11850 KES
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ISBN: 9780198122524

by John Mullan

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Clarendon Paperbacks

ISBN-10 0198122527

ISBN-13 9780198122524

Publisher Oxford University Press

Imprint Clarendon Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Sep 6th, 1990

Print length 270 Pages

Weight 370 grams

Dimensions 21.30 x 14.20 x 1.70 cms

Product Classification: Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 Gender studies: women

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The rise of the novel in the mid-18th century was also the rise of sentimentalism. This study explores the attitudes which led novelists to associate virtuous feeling with disabling suffering. It also examines the role of women in fiction and in society during that period.

With the rise of the novel in the mid-eighteenth century came the rise of sentimentalism. While the fondness for sentiment embarrassed later literary critics, it originally legitimized a morally suspect phenomenon: the novel. This book describes that legitimation, yet it looks beyond the narrowly literary to the lives and expressed philosophies of some of the major writers of the age, showing the language of feeling to be a resource of philosophers like David Hume and Adam Smith, as much as novelists like Richardson and Sterne.

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