The sentimental novel or the novel of sensibility is an 18th- and 19th-century literary genre which presents and celebrates the concepts of sentiment,...

recognise virtue at a visceral level. Everywhere in the sentimental novel or the sentimental comedy, "lively and effusive emotion is celebrated as evidence...

A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy is a novel by Laurence Sterne, written and first published in 1768, as Sterne was facing death. In 1765...

which is the earliest French novel, is properly styled a pastoral. Although its action was, in the main, languid and sentimental, there was a side of the...

includes a variety of aspects in literature, such as sentimental poetry, the sentimental novel, and the German sentimentalist music movement, Empfindsamkeit...

centuries, including Samuel Richardson's sentimental novel Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded (1740) and the novels of Jane Austen. Austen inspired Georgette...

learn a lesson about him or herself and emerge the wiser. The sentimental novel, or "novel of sentiment", developed after 1740, and among the most famous...

She wrote the sentimental novel to depict the reality of slavery while also asserting that Christian love could overcome slavery. The novel focuses on the...

"Sentimental", by Porcupine Tree from Fear of a Blank Planet, 2007 Sentimental novel, a genre of novels Sentimentality Sentimentalism (philosophy) Sentimentalism...

are cornerstones in modern political and social thought. Rousseau's sentimental novel Julie, or the New Heloise (1761) was important to the development...

The Green Hat is a 1924 sentimental novel about the bright young things of London by Michael Arlen. The protagonist of the novel, Iris Storm, is a femme...

Amelia is a sentimental novel written by Henry Fielding and published in December 1751. It was the fourth and final novel written by Fielding, and it...

– that the early American sentimental novel flourishes. It is in the irresolution of Eliza Wharton's dilemma that the novel, as a genre, differentiates...

the plots of sentimental fiction into otherwordly romance: they are effectively the co-authors of their own stories". Images in the novel make it possible...

popular sentimental novels (and to a lesser extent, all novels) as unmanly works. This concern coincided with a marked rise in the production of novels by...

a sentimental novel, which displays the belief in the innate goodness of human beings. But it can also be read as a satire on the sentimental novel and...

appeal to shallow, uncomplicated emotions at the expense of reason Sentimental novel, an 18th-century literary genre Market sentiment, optimism or pessimism...

Relation to Marriage is an epistolary novel by English writer Samuel Richardson, published in 1748. The novel tells the tragic story of a young woman...

a romantic relationship is formed in the latter part of the novel. This sentimental novel, which has notions of sensibility and early romanticism, satirizes...

works. Since then, Austen's novels have been continuously in print. Austen's works implicitly critique the sentimental novels of the second half of the...

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from romantic children's fiction and combined it with others from sentimental novels, resulting in a totally new genre. Elbert argues that within Little...

Sentimental Lover is John le Carré's sixth novel, and one of only two non-spy novels in his oeuvre, along with A Murder of Quality (1962). The novel follows...

Emma; Or, The Unfortunate Attachment: A Sentimental Novel in 1773. In 1778, Georgiana released the epistolary novel The Sylph. Published anonymously, it...

The Lamplighter is a sentimental novel written by Maria Susanna Cummins and published in 1854, and a best-selling novel of its era. A female Bildungsroman...

The Man of Feeling is a sentimental novel published in 1771, written by Scottish author Henry Mackenzie. The novel presents a series of moral vignettes...

architecture. Tristram Shandy, a novel by Laurence Sterne (1759–67), introduced a whimsical version of the anti-rational sentimental novel to the English literary...

Amants du passé, sentimental novel L'Amour à crédit, novel L'Amour vengeur, sentimental novel Les Amours d'une ouvrière, sentimental novel Anastay, un officier...

Sentimental Education (French: L'éducation sentimentale, 1869) is a novel by Gustave Flaubert. The story focuses on the romantic life of a young man named...

Mary is not only a sentimental novel, but, with its emphasis on death, hyperbolic emotion, and persecution, also a gothic novel. Hoeveler identifies...