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?