Men of Feeling in Eighteenth-Century Literature
Touching Fiction
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, British, Theory
| Author: | A. Wetmore | ISBN: | 9781137346346 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan UK | Publication: | November 19, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan | Language: | English |
| Author: | A. Wetmore |
| ISBN: | 9781137346346 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan UK |
| Publication: | November 19, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Language: | English |
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?
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?
