Dickens and the sentimental tradition
Subtitle: Fielding, Richardson, Sterne, Goldsmith, Sheridan, Lamb
By: Valerie Purton
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780857284181
Subjects: English literature; Sentimentalism in literature; Criticism and interpretation; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Sentimentalism and its discontents in the eighteenth-century novel: Fielding, Richardson and Sterne: "There was more of pleasantry in the conceit, of seeing how an ass would eat a macaroon than of benevolence in giving him one"; title: Sentimentalism and its discontents in eighteenth-century drama: Goldsmith and Sheridan: "Humanity, sir, is a jewel. I love humanity"; title: Dickens and nineteenth-century drama: "We would indict our very dreams"; title: The early novels: "Everything in our lives, whether of good or evil, affects us most by contrasts"; title: The later novels: "What the waves were always saying"; title: Conclusion the afterlife of sentimentalism: "Who will write the history of tears?"