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Men of Feeling in Eighteenth-Century Literature

Touching Fiction
By:A. Wetmore
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9781137346339
eText ISBN:9781137346346
Edition:0
Copyright:2013
Format:Reflowable

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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?