Men of Feeling in Eighteenth-Century Literature
Auteur: A. Wetmore
Nombre de pages: 207 pages
ISBN: 1349466883, 9781349466887
Edition: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date de publication: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Description: 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?