Dickens and the Sentimental Tradition: Fielding, Richardson, Sterne, Goldsmith, Sheridan, Lamb

Valerie Purton

doi:10.7135/UPO9780857289070

Dickens and the Sentimental Tradition is a timely study of the sentimental in Dickenss novels, which places them in the context of the tradition of Fielding, Richardson, Sterne, Goldsmith, Sheridan and Lamb. This study re-evaluates Dickenss 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.

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Dickens and the Sentimental Tradition

Fielding, Richardson, Sterne, Goldsmith, Sheridan, Lamb

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Frontmatter
pp i-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

Acknowledgements
pp ix-x

A Note on the Text
pp xi-xii

Introduction
pp xiii-xxviii

Chapter 1 - Dickens and the Sentimentalist Tradition
pp 1-18

Chapter 2 - Sentimentalism and its Discontents in the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Fielding, Richardson and Sterne
pp 19-44

Chapter 3 - Sentimentalism and its Discontents in Eighteenth-Century Drama: Goldsmith and Sheridan
pp 45-68

Chapter 4 - Dickens and Nineteenth-Century Drama
pp 69-90

Chapter 5 - The Early Novels and The Vicar of Wakefield
pp 91-120

Chapter 6 - The Later Novels
pp 121-150

Conclusion - The Afterlife of Sentimentalism
pp 151-160

Notes
pp 161-178

Bibliography
pp 179-184

Index
pp 185-190

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