Sentiment and Sociability: The Language of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century (Clarendon Paperbacks)

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1990
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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.

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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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 06 Sep 1990
ISBN 10: 0198122527
ISBN 13: 9780198122524