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Traces sentimentality in 19th-century imaginative literature by focusing on six major writers: Tennyson and Dickens as the giants of Victorian domestic sentimentality; Hopkins and Hardy as transitional figures; and Lawrence and Eliot as representatives, in different ways, of that era.

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Sentimentality, defined as an 'appeal to emotion which has become conventional rather than fresh, dogmatic rather than imaginative, reductive rather than enlarging,' emerged in the late 18th century. It focused on the family, with women as its bedrock and children as its continuum. A reaction to the socially dissolving effects of post-Cartesian mechanism and chilling individualism, it was less apparent to 19th-century readers than to their jaded successors. Fulweiler traces the progress of sentimentality in key works of Tennyson, Dickens, Hopkins, Hardy, Lawrence, and Eliot. He shows how sentimentality ranges from overplaying the loss of children or the fall of women to romanticizing sexuality itself and blood ties to ancient ritual. * —Library Journal *

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      Publisher: Fordham University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/01/1993
      ISBN13: 9780823214969, 978-0823214969
      ISBN10: 0823214966
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Traces sentimentality in 19th-century imaginative literature by focusing on six major writers: Tennyson and Dickens as the giants of Victorian domestic sentimentality; Hopkins and Hardy as transitional figures; and Lawrence and Eliot as representatives, in different ways, of that era.

      Trade Review
      Sentimentality, defined as an 'appeal to emotion which has become conventional rather than fresh, dogmatic rather than imaginative, reductive rather than enlarging,' emerged in the late 18th century. It focused on the family, with women as its bedrock and children as its continuum. A reaction to the socially dissolving effects of post-Cartesian mechanism and chilling individualism, it was less apparent to 19th-century readers than to their jaded successors. Fulweiler traces the progress of sentimentality in key works of Tennyson, Dickens, Hopkins, Hardy, Lawrence, and Eliot. He shows how sentimentality ranges from overplaying the loss of children or the fall of women to romanticizing sexuality itself and blood ties to ancient ritual. * —Library Journal *

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