| Sentiment and Sociability: The Language of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century Revised Edition Contributor(s): Mullan, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0198122527 ISBN-13: 9780198122524 Publisher: Clarendon Press OUR PRICE: $71.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1990 Annotation: This study examines the autobiographical writing of Samuel Richardson, Laurence Sterne, and David Hume, who chronicled the peculiarly intimate relationships between the texts they produced and the social lives they lived. Each relied on a language of feeling to represent social bonds they considered necessary, discovering, through their writing, a sociability dependent on the communication of passions and sentiments. This discovery, Mullan argues, played a critical role in the development of the eighteenth-century fiction now called sentimental. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 820.91 |
| Physical Information: 0.66" H x 6.1" W x 9.62" (0.79 lbs) 270 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles |
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| Publisher Description: This study examines the autobiographical writing of Samuel Richardson, Laurence Sterne, and David Hume, who chronicled the peculiarly intimate relationships between the texts they produced and the social lives they lived. Each relied on a language of feeling to represent social bonds they considered necessary, discovering, through their writing, a sociability dependent on the communication of passions and sentiments. This discovery, Mullan argues, played a critical role in the development of the eighteenth-century fiction now called sentimental. |