Sentiment and Sociability: The Language of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century.

Mullan, John:

ISBN 10: 0198128657 / ISBN 13: 9780198128656

Published by Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988

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261 S. Ehem. Bibliotheksexemplar mit Stempel und Signatur in GUTEM Zustand. Buch mit Lager- und Gebrauchsspuren, Text sauber. Sprache: englisch. -- Former library book in GOOD condition. 9780198128656 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 486.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sentiment and Sociability: The Language of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century.
• Publisher: Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198128657
• ISBN 13: 9780198128656
• Binding: Hardcover
• Weight: 486 grams
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Synopsis

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."

About the Author

John Mullan is at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.