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Informationen zum Autor Alessa Johns is professor of English at the University of California, Davis. Klappentext As scholarly interest has turned to emotion and affect, Reflections on Sentiment offers examples of Enlightenment feeling both challenging and promoting the period's touted reason and realism. Essays explore the complex relation of thought and sentiment in discourses from moral treatises and religious debates to interrogations of gender and family relations, from fictional tests of boundaries between human and non-human species to innovations in the forms of poetry, the novel, and the literary marketplace itself. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgementsIntroduction by Alessa JohnsPart 1 Sympathetic Identification and Narrative Sociality1 "Unequally Yoked": Defoe and the Challenge of Mixed Marriage by Alison Conway2 Circumstantial Particulars, Particular Individuals, and Defoe by Joanna Picciotto3 The Sentimental Animal by James P. CarsonPart 2 Sentimental Family Politics and the Novel4 "The Sentimental Servant: The Dangers of Dependence in Defoe's Roxana" by Barbara Benedict5 Only a Girl?: Miss Milner, Matilda, and the Consolations of Filial Piety in A Simple Story by Amy Pawl6 "The Abyss of Friendship in Caleb Williams" by George E. Haggerty7 "Only a Boy": George Starr's "Notes on Sentimental Novels" Revisited by Geoffrey SillPart 3 Professing Literature in a Changing Marketplace8 Satirical Authorship and Literary Commerce by Simon Stern9 Passion in Declamation and Dialogue: How Eighteenth-Century Verse Can Work by John RichettiPublications of George StarrAbout the Contributors
