Men of feeling in eighteenth-century literature

Wetmore Alex

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Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke

2013

207 Pages

ISBN 978-1-349-46688-7

Men of feeling in eighteenth-century literature

touching fiction

Alex Wetmore

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?

Publication details

DOI: 10.1057/9781137346346

Full citation:

Wetmore, A. (2013). Men of feeling in eighteenth-century literature: touching fiction, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke.

Table of Contents

Introductory matter

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