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SEDUCTION in literature, SENTIMENTALISM in literature, and PERIODICALS

Focuses on elements of sensibility and seduction present in 'The Massachusetts Magazine.' Impact of issues related to seduction covered in the first volume of the magazine on literary circles; Discussion on the most eloquent attribute of sensibility; Tales of expiration of lovers covered in the magazine.

AUTHORS, SENTIMENTALISM in literature, POETRY (Literary form), and LITERATURE

Focuses on the sentimentalism in poems of William Carlos Williams. Presentation of a sense of sustained intense excitement in poems of the 'Al Que Quiere'; Emotions in the poem 'To Waken an Old Lady.'

FICTION, CRITICISM, SENTIMENTALISM in literature, and LITERATURE

Focuses on novels by Theodore Dreiser in which he created a sentimental heroin Aileen Butler. Criticism of such novels by some conservative critics; Performance of novels by Dreiser when they were published; Sentimentalism in Dreiser's novels.

ETHICS in literature, SENTIMENTALISM in literature, and CRITICISM

Discusses traits of sentimental morality in George Lillo's domestic tragedy 'The London Merchant.' Separation between action and intention; How sentimental morality places a large share of responsibility for one's actions upon factors other than oneself; Reasons why moral criticism of literature occupies modern critics much less than aesthetic examination.

SENTIMENTALISM in literature and CRITICISM

Analyzes the concept of sentimentalism in the literature. Description of the customary perspective of the sentimental hero; Examination of the book 'A Sentimental Journey,' by Laurence Sterne; Analysis of the poems by Robert Burns.

CRITICISM, STORY plots, SENTIMENTALISM in literature, and AUTHOR-reader relationships

The article critically analyzed the book "The French Lieutenant's Woman," by John Fowles. More recent studies have explored how Fowles has manipulated the tacit assumptions of realism to expose, even to undermine, them and to confront readers with own unconscious expectations. It can hardly be an accident that Fowles confronts people with a choice of two endings to "The French Lieutenant's Woman," one of them gushingly sentimental, thus forcing readers to acknowledge their childish desires for wish fulfillment and pushing them toward the "open" ending, a more responsible view of experience with its heavy demands and existential loneliness.

SENTIMENTALISM in literature, RUSSIAN literature, LITERARY form, EMOTIONS, and FICTION

The article informs that Russian narrative prose first flourished in the age of Sentimentalism. Literary scholarship bears some resemblance to journalism. Members of both professions are attracted towards success and fame, often writing only about phenomena which were widely applauded in their time. Such has been the case with Russian Sentimentalist prose. For the study of Russian Sentimentalist narrative prose it is exceptionally significant both to understand its origins and to perceive the factors which were important in its creation, for it is precisely they that determined its individuality as a genre distinct from European prose of the same period. Many scholars link the appearance of narrative prose in late eighteenth-century Russia with the influence of the West European Sentimentalist novel. But, whilst such a link cannot be denied, in the opinion of the present writer this influence was not so much direct as indirect. It may be worthwhile to review briefly the way modern scholarship has described the role of non-literary forms in the development of European Sentimentalist prose, although the present article is limited to the role of private correspondence as an organizing factor in the form of eighteenth-century narrative genres.