Markman Ellis contests the enduring view that the sentimental novel is concerned only with displays of refined feeling. He analyses such fiction's engagement in public controversies of the late eighteenth century: emerging anti-slavery opinion, discourse on the morality of commerce, and the movement to reform prostitution.
Markman Ellis contests the enduring view that the sentimental novel is concerned only with displays of refined feeling. He analyses such fiction's engagement in public controversies of the late eighteenth century: emerging anti-slavery opinion, discourse on the morality of commerce, and the movement to reform prostitution.
1. Sensibility, history and the novel 2. 'The house of bondage': sentimentalism and the problem of slavery 3. 'Delight in misery': sentimentalism, amelioration and slavery 4. 'An easy, speedy and universal medium': canals, commerce and virtue 5. 'Recovering the path of virtue': the politics of prostitution and the sentimental novel 6. 'The dangerous tendency of novels' and the controversy of sentimentalism.
1. Sensibility, history and the novel 2. 'The house of bondage': sentimentalism and the problem of slavery 3. 'Delight in misery': sentimentalism, amelioration and slavery 4. 'An easy, speedy and universal medium': canals, commerce and virtue 5. 'Recovering the path of virtue': the politics of prostitution and the sentimental novel 6. 'The dangerous tendency of novels' and the controversy of sentimentalism.
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