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 theyconsidered 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.
Book Details
Format
Kindle
Pages
272 pages
Language
English
Published
Jan 1, 1990
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Editions
3 editions
ISBN-10
6610763488
ISBN-13
9786610763481