Men of Feeling in Eighteenth-Century Literature [electronic resource] : Touching Fiction /
Wetmore, A.author.
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?
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introductory Matter: Structuring Sensibility in Eighteenth-Century Fiction; 2 Body/Language; 3 Feeling/Machines; 4 Public/Health; 5 Concluding Matter: Tear-blotted Texts and Men of Feeling in the 1790s; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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?
British literature.
Literature-Philosophy.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Fiction.
Literature, Modern.
Literature, Modern-18th century.
British and Irish Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Fiction.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Eighteenth-Century Literature.