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Sentiment and Sociability: The Language of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century - Clarendon Paperbacks
Mullan, John (Fellow and Tutor, Fellow and Tutor, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge)
Sentiment and Sociability: The Language of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century - Clarendon Paperbacks
Mullan, John (Fellow and Tutor, Fellow and Tutor, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge)
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.
270 pages, bibliography
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | September 6, 1990 |
ISBN13 | 9780198122524 |
Publishers | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 270 |
Dimensions | 142 × 213 × 17 mm · 370 g |
Language | English |