Sacred Tears: Sentimentality in Victorian Literature

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Victorian sentimentalism.

Share your thoughts with other customers. Write a product review. The second most important period in this respect is 19th-century America: American literature and culture has attracted outstanding critical work. Studies of 19th-century British literature and culture lag behind, though several important reassessments of Victorian sentimentality do exist.

Recent critical studies of Victorian sentimental texts and contexts tend to draw heavily on the arguments and approaches developed by critics of 18th-century British and 19th-century American sentimental culture. For this reason, although this bibliography focuses on Victorian sentimentality, it also includes critical studies that do not concentrate explicitly on British Victorian texts but have significant implications for their study and have been influential in the field.

Sacred Tears: Sentimentality in Victorian Literature

Victorian sentimentality touches on broad issues of sensibility—including medical and physiological studies—and emotion, which can be profitably summed up under the general heading of affect. The works listed here provide both wide-ranging accounts of Victorian sentimentality and of the sentimental tradition more broadly. Bell provides a thorough grounding in the theory of sentiment from the 18th century onward.

Davis , sharing the convictions of Fulweiler and Bailin see Modernity and Class that Victorian sentimentality responds to the rapid pace of societal change in the period, makes a convincing and reasoned case for the importance of sentimentality in the Victorian novel and should be essential reading.

Howard provides a lucid introduction to the key issues involved in historical and literary-critical accounts of sentimentality and a helpful introduction to the most influential critical studies.

Kaplan remains to a large extent the standard monograph on Victorian sentimentality and was a pioneering instance of critical work that took sentimental literature seriously. Merish represents 21st-century interest in the relations between the sentimental tradition and capitalism: Railton — supplies an excellent selection of primary sources on 19th-century sentimentality and serves as an indispensable introduction to sentimental culture.

Banfield is helpful in considering how sentiment was defined in the Victorian period and the shifts that took place in these definitions.

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Finally, Tompkins was an early and field-defining work, enormously influential in revaluing 19th-century sentimental literature—particularly though not exclusively by women—and in arguing for its political impact. From Sentiment to Sentimentality: A Nineteenth-Century Lexicographical Search. Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century 4 Sentimentalism, Ethics, and the Culture of Feeling.

Traces the development of sentimentality from the 18th to the 20th centuries. The first two chapters contain a clear account of sentiment and sympathy in moral philosophy.

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Edited by Alice Jenkins and Juliet John, 13— Short but highly significant essay offering brilliant close readings of extracts from realist novels, to display and reassess the emotional charge they contain. Calls for an end to the discourse of judgment surrounding sentimentality.

Reexamining important critical studies, Howard suggests the need for an interdisciplinary understanding of sentimentality that takes in new work on emotion and the body from linguistics, the social sciences, and physiology. Sentimentality in Victorian Literature.

Princeton University Press, Classic study of Victorian sentimentality, taking a largely sympathetic and revisionary position in tracing the roots of 19th-century sentimental fictions in 18th-century moral philosophy.

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