num_pages: 160
description: Mackenzie's hugely popular novel of 1771 is the foremost work of the sentimental movement, in which sentiment and sensibility were allied with true virtue, and sensitivity is the mark of the man of feeling. The hero, Harley, is followed in a series of episodes demonstrating his benevolence inan uncaring he assists the down-trodden, loses his love, and fails to achieve worldly success. The novel asks a series of vital what morality is possible in a complex commercial world? Does trying to maintain it make you a saint or a fool? Is sentiment merely a luxury for theleisured classes?
language: English
title: The Man of Feeling
titlecomplete: The Man of Feeling
genres: Classics, British Literature, 18th Century, English Literature, Novels, Scotland, School, Historical Fiction, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 1718
places: England
publisher: Oxford University Press