Sentiment and sociability : the language of feeling in the eighteenth century /

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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Online Access:Electronic book from Oxford Scholarship Online
Main Author: Mullan, John.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1988.
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