Title: Sensibility and economics in the novel, 1740-1800
First published: 1999
Description: Sensibility and Economics in the Novel, 1740-1800, argues that the sentimental novel, usually seen as a 'feminine' genre concentrating exclusively on emotional response, is in fact actively involved in contemporary economic and political debates.

Spanning the period encompassing the rise, heyday and decline of sentimentalism, the book considers how the trajectory of the movement affected the sentimental novel's treatment of economic issues and their relations to discourses of sensibility and femininity, and assesses the impact of the pressures of the post. Revolutionary 1790s on these areas.
Subjects: Sentimentalism in literature, English fiction, Economics in literature, Emotions in literature, History and criticism, English fiction, history and criticism, 18th century
Time periods: 18th century
LC classification: PR858.S45 S57 1999