The Man of Feeling by Henry Mackenzie
'a book I prize next to the Bible' Robert Burns Mackenzie's hugely popular novel of 1771 is the foremost work of the sentimental movement, in which sentiment and sensibility were allied with true virtue, and sensitivity is the mark of the man of feeling. The hero, Harley, is followed in a series of episodes demonstrating his benevolence in an uncaring world: he assists the down-trodden, loses his love, and fails to achieve worldly success. The novel asks a series of vital questions: what morality is possible in a complex commercial world? Does trying to maintain it make you a saint or a fool? Is sentiment merely a luxury for the leisured classes? This edition reprints Brian Vickers's authoritative text, with a new introduction that discusses the novel in the context of the Scottish Enlightenment and European sentimentalism.
Laura Mandell is Associate Professor of English and Digital Humanities at Miami University of Ohio. She has published articles about women writers and Romantic poetry in journals such as ELH, MLQ, Studies in Romanticism, European Romantic Review, and, most recently, Victorian Studies and New Literary History. In addition to the present volume, Mandell is general editor of the Poetess Archive Database, a full-text and bibliographic resource, and co-editor of the Romantic Chronology. Her first book, Misogynous Economies, analyzes the relationship between misogyny, literariness, and the canon in eighteenth-century literature.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780192840325 |
| ISBN 10 | 0192840320 |
| Title | The Man of Feeling |
| Author | Henry Mackenzie |
| Series | Oxford World's Classics Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2001-12-01 |
| Number of pages | 154 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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