Valerie Purton

Dickens and the Sentimental Tradition

Fielding, Richardson, Sterne, Goldsmith, Sheridan, Lamb

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Produktbeschreibung

'Dickens and the Sentimental Tradition' is a timely study of the 'sentimental' in Dickens's novels, which re-evaluates his presentation of emotion as part of a complex literary tradition that enables him to critique nineteenth-century society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9780857284181
• ISBN-10: 0857284185
• Artikelnr.: 36273744

Autorenporträt

Valerie Purton is Reader in Victorian Literature at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1: Dickens and the Sentimentalist Tradition
Chapter 2: Sentimentalism and its Discontents in the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Fielding, Richardson and Sterne
Chapter 3: Sentimentalism and its Discontents in Eighteenth-Century Drama: Goldsmith and Sheridan
Chapter 4: Dickens and Nineteenth-Century Drama
Chapter 5: The Early Novels and 'The Vicar of Wakefield'
Chapter 6: The Later Novels
Conclusion: The Afterlife of Sentimentalism