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POETRY (Literary form), FAMILY relations, ENGLISH poetry, SENTIMENTALISM in literature, and PARENT-child relationships

The article focuses on features of contemporary poetry is its frequent focus on familial relations between parents and young children and between middle-aged children and their aging parents. It mentions explorations of the nature of affection between parents and children rarely found their way into English-language poetry. It also mentions sentimentality such as pornography and poem "Morning Song" by Sylvia Plath and legitimacy of parent-child relations.

ENGLISH letters and SENTIMENTALISM in literature

The author discusses the relationship between English poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and John Thelwall. He mentions Coleridge's letter regarding his reading of Thelwall's poetry, the evidence that Coleridge had read "Poems on Various Subjects," and the attraction of Coleridge to the sentimentalism in Thelwall's early poetry.

POLITICAL science writing, MACHIAVELLIANISM (Psychology), PRAGMATISM, SENTIMENTALISM in literature, and POETRY (Literary form)

The article discusses the works of British writer and poet Charles Hubert Sisson. It is stated that Sisson wrote literary and political essays, and in his political writings, he considers the realities of political life apart from ideology, and considers machiavellianism and pragmatism in his writings. It is stated that as a poet, Sisson was against the manipulation of sentiment, and his poems are often unsentimental and anti-rhetorical.

SENTIMENTALISM in literature, AESTHETICS in literature, EXPERIMENTAL literature, IRONY in literature, and HUMAN sexuality in literature

The article presents literary criticism of the book "The Hard-Boiled Virgin" by Frances Newman. Particular focus is given to the novel's relationship to sentimentalism. According to the author, Newman's book exemplifies an interwar-era modernist sentimental aesthetic which emphasized experimental practices. Details on the genre of hard-boiled fiction and on the literary use of irony during this period are presented. Other topics include narration and the novel's depiction of sexuality.

SENTIMENTALISM in literature, LITERARY characters, and SEMIOTICS

The Old Curiosity Shop (1840–1841), as John Bowen has stated, is a novel that continues to be thought of as ‘a text of notorious sentimentality, morbid and uncontrolled, embarrassing and absurd by turns’. This article re-examines Dickens’ novel through a close reading of its opening scene, in which the narrator, Master Humphrey, encounters Little Nell in the streets of London at night. To illuminate it, the article sets this scene within two frames. In the first section, it discusses the significance of Dickens’ own experience of nightwalking, as recorded in his essay ‘Night Walks’ (1860), and relates this to an emergent semiotics of walking in the nineteenth century. In the second, it scrutinizes the role and character of Humphrey, especially in the context of Master Humphrey’s Clock. In the third section, it analyzes the novel’s opening scene itself, proposing that Humphrey is a far darker character than is usually assumed, before finally suggesting that its mysterious undercurrents resurface in later novels by Stevenson, Joyce and Nabokov. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SENTIMENTALISM in literature, POETRY (Literary form), INDIGENOUS women, and BICULTURALISM

An essay is presented on the association of native literary resistance and collaboration to determine the sentimental lessons in the poetry of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft. It says that the exploration of the sentimental poetry of Schoolcraft demonstrates the acknowledgment of transatlantic sentimentality impact in the poetic endeavors of indigenous women. It notes that the use of biculturalism in authorship of Schoolcraft provides serious complication on her poetic advocacy acts.

SENTIMENTALISM in literature and CRITICISM

Analyzes the element of sentimental translation in the literature of writers Henry Mackenzie and Laurence Sterne. Eighteenth-century sentimentalists; Relationship between narrator and reader; Concept of sensibility; Connections between object and subject.

FICTION, TRAVEL writing, and SENTIMENTALISM in literature

This article examines the ambiguities and contradictions of Dickens's reaction to changing technologies of travel. Focusing on Dickens's portrayal of stage-coaches and the railway in his two historical novels, Barnaby Rudge (1840–41) and A Tale of Two Cities (1859), it raises questions about the nature of Dickens's nostalgic vision and how this interacted with his approach to themes of historical progress in these novels. Exploring critical understandings of ‘nostalgia’, this essay concludes that Dickens's depiction of superseded and superseding modes of travel represents a productive interaction between old and new in a period of rapid transition, rather than an inconsequential or regrettable quirk of sentimentality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

SENTIMENTALISM in literature

A literary criticism of the books "Sentimental Tommy" and "Tommy and Grizel" by J. M. Barrie is presented. It examines why the hero, Tommy, of these books is described as sentimentalist. It states that attitudes toward sentimentalism were influenced by Thomas Carlyle. It explains why Barrie was more concerned with interrogating the concept of sentimentalism itself.