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Men of feeling in eighteenth-century literature
touching fiction
Abstract
Analysing texts by Sterne, Smollett, Brooke, and Mackenzie, this book offers a new perspective on a question that literary criticism has struggled with for years: why are many sentimental novels of the 1700s so pervasively and playfully self-conscious, and why is this self-consciousness so often directed toward the materiality of the printed word?
Details | Table of Contents
structuring sensibility in eighteenth-century fiction
pp.1-25
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137346346_1tear-blotted texts and men of feeling in the 1790s
pp.147-164
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137346346_5pp.165-171
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137346346_6Publication details
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place: Basingstoke
Year: 2013
Pages: 207
ISBN (hardback): 978-1-349-46688-7
ISBN (digital): 978-1-137-34634-6
Full citation:
Wetmore Alex (2013) Men of feeling in eighteenth-century literature: touching fiction. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.