Dickens and the sentimental tradition : Fielding, Richardson, Sterne, Goldsmith, Sheridan, Lamb / / Valerie Purton [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910462346403321
• Autore: Purton Valerie
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Anthem Press, , 2012
• ISBN: 1-283-57532-9; 9786613887771; 0-85728-907-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxvii, 190 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: Anthem nineteenth century series Dickens and the sentimental tradition
• Disciplina: 823/.8
• Soggetti: English literature - 18th century - History and criticism; Sentimentalism in literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Sentimentalism and its discontents in the eighteenth-century novel: Fielding, Richardson and Sterne: "There was more of pleasantry in the conceit, of seeing how an ass would eat a macaroon than of benevolence in giving him one" -- Sentimentalism and its discontents in eighteenth-century drama: Goldsmith and Sheridan: "Humanity, sir, is a jewel. I love humanity" -- Dickens and nineteenth-century drama: "We would indict our very dreams" -- The early novels: "Everything in our lives, whether of good or evil, affects us most by contrasts" -- The later novels: "What the waves were always saying" -- Conclusion the afterlife of sentimentalism: "Who will write the history of tears?"
• Sommario/riassunto: ‘Dickens and the Sentimental Tradition’ is a timely study of the ‘sentimental’ in Dickens’s novels, which places them in the context of the tradition of Fielding, Richardson, Sterne, Goldsmith, Sheridan and Lamb. This study re-evaluates Dickens’s presentation of emotion – first within the eighteenth-century tradition and then within the dissimilar nineteenth-century tradition – as part of a complex literary heritage that enables him to critique nineteenth-century society. The book sheds light on the construction of feelings and of the ‘good heart’, ideas which resonate with current critical debates about literary ‘; affect’. Sentimentalism, as the text demonstrates, is crucial to understanding fully the achievement of Dickens and his contemporaries.

The Poetics of Description : Imagined Places in European Literature / / by Janice Hewlett Koelb

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910965417503321
• Autore: Koelb Janice Hewlett
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2006
• ISBN: 9786611361389; 9781281361387; 1281361380; 9780230601888; 023060188X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (245 p.)
• Disciplina: 809/.93372
• Soggetti: Poetry; Literature, Modern; European literature; Poetry and Poetics; Early Modern/Renaissance Literature; European Literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction: Ecphrasis, Description, and the Imagined Place; 1 As if Present: Classical Ecphrasis; 2 Unity, Form, and Figuration; 3 A Sylvan Scene; 4 The Universe Dead or Alive: Gilpin, Wordsworth, and the Picturesque; 5 The Visionary Eye: Wordsworth's Antipicturesque Excursion; 6 ""Till the Place Became Religion"": Byron's Coliseum; Epilogue: Immediacy; Notes; Works Cited; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book tells a remarkable story that begins in classical antiquity with ecphrasis, the art of describing the world so vividly that the audience could become imaginative eyewitnesses, and the events that caused an ideal of immediacy to be transformed into nearly its opposite, a preoccupation with representation of representation.