Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Sentimental Novel and Politics
- Chapter 2 Sensible Readers: Experiments in Feeling in Early Prose Fiction by Women
- Chapter 3 Reading for the Sentiment: Richardson’s Novels
- Chapter 4 The Virtuous in Distress: David Simple, Amelia, Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph
- Chapter 5 Sentiment from Abroad: French Novels after 1748
- Chapter 6 Sterne’s Sentimental Empiricism
- Chapter 7 Virtue Not Rewarded: The Man of Feeling and The Sorrows of Young Werther
- Chapter 8 Slavery and the Novel of Sentiment
- Chapter 9 Sentiment and the Gothic: Failures of Emotion in the Novels of Mrs Radcliffe and the Minerva Press
- Chapter 10 The Sentimental Novel in America: The History of Emily Montague, Charlotte Temple, The Power of Sympathy, The Coquette
- Chapter 11 Novel Anachronisms: Sophia Lee’s The Life of a Lover and Frances Burney’s The Wanderer
- Chapter 12 Jane Austen and the Sentimental Novel
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 3 - Reading for the Sentiment: Richardson’s Novels
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 March 2019
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Sentimental Novel and Politics
- Chapter 2 Sensible Readers: Experiments in Feeling in Early Prose Fiction by Women
- Chapter 3 Reading for the Sentiment: Richardson’s Novels
- Chapter 4 The Virtuous in Distress: David Simple, Amelia, Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph
- Chapter 5 Sentiment from Abroad: French Novels after 1748
- Chapter 6 Sterne’s Sentimental Empiricism
- Chapter 7 Virtue Not Rewarded: The Man of Feeling and The Sorrows of Young Werther
- Chapter 8 Slavery and the Novel of Sentiment
- Chapter 9 Sentiment and the Gothic: Failures of Emotion in the Novels of Mrs Radcliffe and the Minerva Press
- Chapter 10 The Sentimental Novel in America: The History of Emily Montague, Charlotte Temple, The Power of Sympathy, The Coquette
- Chapter 11 Novel Anachronisms: Sophia Lee’s The Life of a Lover and Frances Burney’s The Wanderer
- Chapter 12 Jane Austen and the Sentimental Novel
- Select Bibliography
- Index
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- The Sentimental Novel in the Eighteenth Century , pp. 51 - 68Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019