menu
{ "item_title" : "Sentiment and Sociability", "item_author" : [" John Mullan "], "item_description" : "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 eighteenth-century fiction now called sentimental.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers1.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/0/19/812/252/0198122527_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "79.00", "online_price" : "79.00", "our_price" : "79.00", "club_price" : "79.00", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }
Sentiment and Sociability|John Mullan

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

local_shippingShip to Me
In Stock.
FREE Shipping for Club Members help

Overview

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 eighteenth-century fiction now called sentimental.

This item is Non-Returnable

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780198122524
  • ISBN-10: 0198122527
  • Publisher: OUP Oxford
  • Publish Date: November 1990
  • Dimensions: 9.62 x 6.1 x 0.66 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.79 pounds
  • Page Count: 270

Related Categories

You May Also Like...

    1

BAM Customer Reviews