Framing Feeling: Sentiment and Style in English Prose Fiction, 1745-1800AMS Press, 1994 - 261 pages How did eighteenth-century literature confront sentimentalism? By examining novels, periodicals, and literary miscellanies, Framing Feeling demonstrates that writers and publishers muted sentimental ideals. This book analyzes fictional conventions that authorize conservative notions of gender, aesthetics, and politics even in works considered revolutionary. |
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... His and Hers : Essays in Restoration and Eighteenth - Cen- tury Literature . Lexington : University of Kentucky Press , 1986 . Micasiw , Kim Ian . " Imitation and Ideology : Henry Mackenzie's Rousseau . " Eighteenth - Century Fiction 5 ...
... His and Hers : Essays in Restoration and Eighteenth - Cen- tury Literature . Lexington : University of Kentucky Press , 1986 . Micasiw , Kim Ian . " Imitation and Ideology : Henry Mackenzie's Rousseau . " Eighteenth - Century Fiction 5 ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Gender and Narrative Authority The Female Spectator | 20 |
Fools of Feeling The Vicar of Wakefield | 47 |
Copyright | |
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