Men of Feeling in Eighteenth-Century Literature

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?

Autorentext

Alex Wetmore teaches in the English department at the University of the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada.

Inhalt
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