Men of Feeling in Eighteenth-Century Literature - Touching Fiction

Informationen zum Autor Alex Wetmore teaches in the English department at the University of the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada. Klappentext 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? Zusammenfassung 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? Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements 1. Introductory Matter: Structuring Sensibility in Eighteenth-Century Fiction 2. Body/Language 3. Feeling/Machines 4. Public/Health 5. Concluding Matter: Tear-Blotted Texts and Men of Feeling in the 1790s Afterword Bibliography Index

List of contents

Acknowledgements 1. Introductory Matter: Structuring Sensibility in Eighteenth-Century Fiction 2. Body/Language 3. Feeling/Machines 4. Public/Health 5. Concluding Matter: Tear-Blotted Texts and Men of Feeling in the 1790s Afterword Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: A Wetmore, A. Wetmore, Alex Wetmore
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.11.2013
• EAN: 9781137346339
• ISBN: 978-1-137-34633-9
• No. of pages: 217
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; B, Fiction & related items, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Fiction, Literary studies: general, Literary theory, Culture—Study and teaching, European Literature, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Eighteenth-Century Literature, Literature, Modern—18th century, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Fiction Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature—Philosophy, Early Modern and Renaissance Literature, Literature, Modern, English literature;fiction;novel