"Features essays that examine how authors of the 20th and 21st centuries continue the use of sentimental forms and tropes of 19th century literature. While these later narratives employ aspects of the sentimental mode, many critique failures of the sentimental, deconstructing 19…
"Features essays that examine how authors of the 20th and 21st centuries continue the use of sentimental forms and tropes of 19th century literature. While these later narratives employ aspects of the sentimental mode, many critique failures of the sentimental, deconstructing 19…
Preliminary Material -- Vorwort -- Einleitung -- Die Zärtlichkeit der Galanten -- Die Tragödie der Zärtlichkeit -- Die Komödie der Zärtlichkeit -- Die Tragikomödie der Zärtlichkeit -- Die Krise der Zärtlichkeit -- Die Überwindung der Zärtlichkeit -- Die Rekonstruktion der Zärtli…
During the later eighteenth century, changes in the meaning and status of literature left popular sentimental novels stranded on the margins of literary history. While critics no longer dismiss or ignore these works, recent reassessments have emphasized their interventions in va…
Sophia Lee's historical sensibility -- Reading and remembering Ann Radcliffe -- Charlotte Smith's literary exile -- Mary Robinson and the wreath of fame.
During the later eighteenth century, changes in the meaning and status of literature left popular sentimental novels stranded on the margins of literary history. While critics no longer dismiss or ignore these works, recent reassessments have emphasized their interventions in va…
In what is sure to become a critical classic, this book challenges Sergei Eisenstein's influential account of Dickens and early American film by tracing the unexpected history and intricate strategies of the sentimental mode and showing how it has been reimagined over the past t…
