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Book Chapter
The Novel of Sentiment
2006
Overview
THE PARTICULAR FORM OF consciousness that we encounter inA Sentimental Journeyattracted such interest in the eighteenth century that it generated a novelistic subgenre of its own. For several decades, the sentimental novel, or novel of sensibility, intended to arouse as well as to render sympathetic feelings, flourished in England (as well as on the Continent). Sentimental novels assumed the individual and social importance of sensitivity to the troubles of others. In addition to representing heroes, and occasionally heroines, of extraordinary responsiveness, they also commented on social institutions.
One of the best-known examples of the form — better known, perhaps,
Publisher
Yale University Press
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ISBN
0300110316, 9780300110319
