Download or read book Men of Feeling in Eighteenth-Century Literature written by A. Wetmore and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analysing texts by Sterne, Smollett, Brooke, and Mackenzie, this book offers a new perspective on a question that literary criticism has struggled with for years: why are many sentimental novels of the 1700s so pervasively and playfully self-conscious, and why is this self-consciousness so often directed toward the materiality of the printed word?