Men of Feeling in Eighteenth-Century Literature
Auteur: A. Wetmore
Nombre de pages: 207 pages
ISBN: 1137346345, 9781137346346
Edition: Springer
Date de publication: Springer
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?