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

Mullan, John

ISBN 10: 0198128657 / ISBN 13: 9780198128656

Published by Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1988

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First impression. 8vo. Pp (viii) + 261. Black cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. A clean, unmarked and tightly bound copy in an unclipped dust jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sentiment and Sociability: The Language of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century
• Publisher: Clarendon Press, Oxford
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198128657
• ISBN 13: 9780198128656
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good +
• Dust Jacket Condition: very good +
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literary Criticism

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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.