Men of Feeling in Eighteenth-Century Literature: Touching Fiction

Wetmore, A.

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?

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2013-11-13

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781137346339

DOI: 10.1057/9781137346346

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 207