Sentiment and Sociability

Auteur: Mullan, John (Fellow and Tutor, Fellow and Tutor, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge)
Editeur: Oxford University Press
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.

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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.
ISBN / EAN 9780198122524
Auteur Mullan, John (Fellow and Tutor, Fellow and Tutor, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge)
Editeur Oxford University Press