At 13:40 03/11/98 +0000, you wrote:
>Hi,
>I'm teaching a survey course this semester on the eighteenth century,
>and I'm looking for a short sentimental tale that typifies the genre
>which I can use to supplement the rest of the classes' reading. If
>anyone can suggest something that is readily available, please can
>you let me know - either via the list, or direct at
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>Thanks
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>Jonathan Laidlow
>Dept of English - staff pigeonholes
>University of Birmingham
>Edgbaston
>Birmingham
>B15 2TT, England
>0121 414 5976
>
Henry Mackenzie's The Man of Feeling (1771) is pretty typical - tremendously
successful in its day and SHORT - less than 100 pages - available OUP.
Sterne's Sentimental Journey - illustrates many sentimental techniques - the
extreme concentration on emotional detail - the careful staging of emotive
episodes...
David Simple - by Sarah Fielding is rather longer... but it is full of
detachable chapters and episodes... its interesting in that the end of the
second part is remorseless in its misery... (see Clarissa)
Oliver Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield has many of the characteristics of
the genre... a wonderful mixture of comedy and pathos.
Dr Conrad Brunstrom
Dept of English
University of Ireland Maynooth
Maynooth,
Co. Kildare
Republic of Ireland
TEL + 708 3543
TEL + 628 9676
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