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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.

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 and SENTIMENTALISM in literature

The article presents a literary analysis of Sherwood Anderson's short story "Winesburg, Ohio." The author argues that Anderson's involvement with sentimentalism, as expressed in the short story is important in understanding Anderson's modernism. According to the author, the short story persists in using sentimental themes even as it aims to be unsentimental. The author believes that Anderson's sentimentalism marks his relationship with managerial capitalism.

CRITICISM, AUTHOR-reader relationships, AFFECT (Psychology), WOMEN in literature, HEART, METAPHOR, and SENTIMENTALISM in literature

This article argues that the physical language of Charlotte Smith's Elegiac Sonnets, informed by nineteenth-century medical notions of sympathy and cardiac permeability, worked to transmit affect to her readership, thus gaining their literary patronage. To support her claim, the author provides a brief background on the nineteenth-century medical notion of sympathy, a notion that involved “corpuscles” transferred between people. Like these corpuscles, feelings and emotions were, as Adela Pinch has argued, floating entities, but the author argues that they could also effect biological change. This biological concept, appropriated as literary metaphor, revolves around the heart, an organ that, in 1784, was shown permeable to infection. Smith's intensely physical images of heartache, crying, pain in the breast, or the fires of love elicited similar symptoms in the readers themselves. After discussing the bodily imagery of Smith's and her readers' sonnets, the article ends by considering the effects of sympathetic transfer. While Smith's Elegiac Sonnets mainly utilize sympathy to increase reader loyalty, later poems would use the permeability of affect toward political ends. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

CRITICISM, SUBJECTIVITY, WOMEN in literature, FEMININITY in literature, SENTIMENTALISM in literature, 18TH century English literature, and ENGLISH literature -- History & criticism

In this article, the author attempts to show that Charlotte Smith's Elegiac Sonnets offer distinctive and fascinating representations of eighteenth-century feminine subjectivity as something alienated, traumatic and incomplete. Such a reading differs both from orthodox interpretations of the Sonnets as expressing authentic feminine experience, and later readings which emphasize Smith's performance of culturally constructed images of femininity. The author identifies sonnets where Smith neither represents (supposedly) real selves, nor plays with theatrical images of womanhood, but rather meets the cultural construction of femininity as something dispossessing, thus creating a troubled sense of self that involves dissonance or lack: what the author has termed, using one of her favourite words, “lorn”. Whether through sonnets that feel at home in the unhomely, marginal spaces of the ghostly River Arun, sonnets that adopt the violence of the sublime to depict the violent fractures in the structure of female self-consciousness, or sonnets that overturn the conventions of sentimentalism by repudiating a self identified with affectivity, Smith's sequence involves a sophisticated and provocative interrogation of feminine subjectivity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

SENTIMENTALISM in literature, MELANCHOLY in literature, SOLITUDE in literature, MONADOLOGY, and CRITICISM

A discussion of the playwright Samuel Beckett's relationship to the work of the poet Rainer Maria Rilke is presented. Beckett's disapproval of what he regarded as Rilke's sentimental tendencies were balanced by his sympathetic view of Rilke's concern with solitude and melancholy. Quotations from Beckett's diaries and his review of a book of Rilke's poetry translated by J.B. Leishman illustrate the ambivalent interest which characterized Beckett's attitude toward Rilke's work. The symbolism of the monad and the different use that Becket and Rilke made of the symbol are also discussed.

CRITICISM, BRITISH women authors, SENTIMENTALISM in literature, and ROMANTICISM

The article analyzes the book "Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark" ("Letters From Norway") by Mary Wollstonecraft, as at once a travel narrative, autobiography, and sentimental discourse. It is also examined as a piece of late "Sensibility" literature, a forerunner of Romanticism, and a groundbreaking work in women's literature.

19TH century American literature, POPULAR literature, CRITICISM, MODERNISM (Literature), and SENTIMENTALISM in literature

The article contends that the popular literature of the American Renaissance, as opposed to canonical contributions, can be productively assessed by applying the critical vocabulary used to describe contemporaneous modernist developments across the Atlantic. The dialogic relationship between privileged texts and the denigrated narrative traditions of sentimentality, abolition and temperance are examined. The discussion focuses on the proximity of Susan Warner's 1850 novel "The Wide, Wide World" and the discourse of sentimentality to Herman Melville's 1852 "Pierre; or, The Ambiguities."

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, FASCISM & literature, and CRITICISM

Discusses sentimentalism and fascism in the works of Louis Celine as well as the juxtaposition of Celine with American writer Dr. William Carlos Williams. Linking of the fact of medical practice to the problem of narrative; Analogous structural role played by the medical doctor in certain North American literary works; Characteristic rhythm of Celine's chapters; Deeper source of Celine's modernism.

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.

WOMEN in literature, SENTIMENTALISM in literature, and CRITICISM

Deconstructs the sentimental machinery in Herman Melville's novel, `Pierre.' Displacement of female personality with generalized types; Women as projections of male consciousness; Association of social conservatism with sexual repression and Oedipal inadequacy; Integration of good and bad in protagonist's imagination; Social constraints thwarting women's happiness.

CRITICISM, IRONY in literature, SENTIMENTALISM in literature, and MODERNISM (Literature)

A literary criticism of the novel "David Simple," by Sarah Fielding is presented. Particular focus is given to the use of sentimental irony and the use of rhetoric in 18th century British literature. The relationship between modernity and the concept of value, the corruptible influence of the economic system, and differences between satiric and sentimental irony are examined. The novel's characters and plot are also discussed.