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pp. 261, “This study examines the autobiographical writing of Samuel Richardson, Laurence Sterne, and David Hume, who chronicled the peculiarly intimate relationships between the texts they produced and the social lives they lived. Each relied on a language of feeling to represent social bonds they considered necessary, discovering, through their writing, a sociability dependent on the communication of passions and sentiments. This discovery, Mullan argues, played a critical role in the development of the 18th-century fiction now called “sentimental.””
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| ISBN | 0198128657 | |
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| ISBN13 | 9780198128656 | |
| Number of pages | 261 | |
| Original Title | Sentiment and Sociability: The Language of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century | |
| Published Date | 1988 | |
| Book Condition | Very Good | |
| Jacket Condition | Very Good, spine faded | |
| Binding | Hardcover | |
| Size | 8vo | |
| Place of Publication | Oxford | |
| Edition | First edition | |
| Category: | Special Literature | |
| Author: | John Mullan | |
| Publisher: | Clarendon Press |
pp. 261, “This study examines the autobiographical writing of Samuel Richardson, Laurence Sterne, and David Hume, who chronicled the peculiarly intimate relationships between the texts they produced and the social lives they lived. Each relied on a language of feeling to represent social bonds they considered necessary, discovering, through their writing, a sociability dependent on the communication of passions and sentiments. This discovery, Mullan argues, played a critical role in the development of the 18th-century fiction now called “sentimental.””
| Weight | 1 kg |
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