The sentimental novel in the eighteenth century / edited by Albert J. Rivero.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rivero, Albert J., 1953- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--18th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Sentimentalism in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Summary:

As a literary genre, the sentimental novel reached the height of its vogue in the 1770s and 1780s and was still popular as the eighteenth century drew to a close. This volume presents a comprehensive exploration of the sentimental novel in the eighteenth century, beginning with its origins in the so-called amatory fiction of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Chapters from leading scholars combine the various aspects and contexts of the genre, from politics, slavery, women writers, and the Gothic to the sentimental novel in America, France and Germany, with historically informed close readings of novels by writers including Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), Laurence Sterne (1713-68) and Jane Austen (1775-1817). This volume demonstrates that the sentimental novel continues to engage readers and critics and that, far from being obsolete or only of antiquary interest, it remains a vibrant and exciting area of study.

Contents:

The sentimental novel and politics / Gary Kelly

Sensible readers: experiments in feeling in early prose fiction by women / Ros Ballaster

Reading for the sentiment: Richardson's novels / Bonnie Latimer

The virtuous in distress: David Simple, Amelia, Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph / Barbara M. Benedict

Sentiment from abroad: French novels after 1748 / Gillian Dow

Sterne's sentimental empiricism / Jonathan Lamb

Virtue not rewarded: the man of feeling and the Sorrows of Young Werther / Maureen Harkin

Slavery and the novel of sentiment / Brycchan Carey

Sentiment and the gothic: failures of emotion in the novels of Mrs Radcliffe and the Minerva Press / Hannah Doherty Hudson

The sentimental novel in America: the history of Emily Montague, Charlotte Temple, The power of sympathy, the coquette / Joseph F. Bartolomeo

Novel anachronisms: Sophia Lee's The life of a lover and Frances Burney's The wanderer / Melissa Sodeman

Jane Austen and the sentimental novel / Albert J. Rivero.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Mar 2019).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-108-31144-X

1-108-29237-2

1-108-31444-9