The Sentimental Education of the Novel
Author | : Margaret Cohen |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2002-01-27 |
ISBN-10 | : 0691095884 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780691095882 |
Rating | : 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Sentimental Education of the Novel by : Margaret Cohen
Download or read book The Sentimental Education of the Novel written by Margaret Cohen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-27 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Cohen draws on archival research, resurrecting scores of forgotten nineteenth-century novels, to demonstrate that the codes most closely identified with realism were actually the invention of sentimentality, a powerful aesthetic of emerging liberal-democratic society, although Balzac and Stendhal trivialized sentimental works by associating them with "frivolous" women writers and readers."--BOOK JACKET.