Sentiment and Sociability : The Language of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century
by
John Mullan
Book Details
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 1800Gender 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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