Title: Sentimentalism, Ethics, and the Culture of Feeling
Description: "Sentimentalism, Ethics and the Culture of Feeling defends the value of feeling against a customary distrust or condescension by analysing the creation of a culture of feeling out of the eighteenth-century cult of sentiment. This study foregrounds how fiction remains a principal means not just of discriminating quality of feeling but of appreciating its essentially imaginative nature."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Sentimentalism in literature, Modern Literature, History and criticism, Literature, modern, history and criticism