Men of Feeling in Eighteenth-Century Literature Touching Fiction
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?
Keywords
Literary CriticismEuropeanSemiotics & TheorySocial ScienceFictionModern18th CenturyLanguage Arts & DisciplinesLinguisticsAnthropologyCultural & SocialRenaissance
2013Book
Author(s)Alex Wetmore
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN9781137346339
LanguageEnglish
