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• The Sentimental Novel in the Eighteenth Century ed. by Albert J. Rivero
• Jennifer Golightly (bio)

As Albert J. Rivero writes in his introduction, the sentimental novel helped shape the conventions that characterize the English novel as we think of it today. This collection includes essays that make explicit the ways in which the sentimental novel informs or connects with other novelistic genres as well as with currents of thought in the eighteenth century, particularly scientific and empirical thought. The aim of this volume is thus to present “various aspects and contexts for thinking about the genre” while also pointing toward areas for further research (11). The flexibility of theme gives the authors freedom to imagine the ways in which eighteenth-century authors and texts worked with and against the conventions of the sentimental novel: for example, how authors such as Frances Burney and Sophia Lee found the genre effective as a way of exploring questions about women’s suffering after the apex of the form’s popularity in the early nineteenth century, as Melissa Sodeman argues, or how the gothic novel both used and repudiated the conventions of sentimental literature, as Hannah Doherty Hudson suggests. The uni fy ing point of the collection is that all the essays provide some new way of thinking about the sentimental novel in the eighteenth century. The volume offers updated approaches and, in many cases, revisions to existing scholarship on the topic. Particularly valuable is the move away from a single national literature as focus, evidenced by inclusions such as Gillian Dow’s essay on the French sentimental tradition, Maureen Harkin’s comparative analysis of The Man of Feeling and The Sorrows of Young Werther, and Joseph Bartolomeo’s essay on the sentimental novel in North America with a focus on novels by Hannah Webster Foster, Susanna Rowson, Frances Brooke, and William Hill Brown. Because of the breadth of the connections it makes, scholars [End Page 298] working on a variety of topics in the long eighteenth century will find this volume useful, particularly those working on empiricism in the novel, scholars interested in sentimental modes of writing in Germany or France, those learning about the deployment of the sentimental novel for political purposes, scholars working on the depiction of slavery and the slave trade in the novel, or students interested in the legacy of the sentimental novel in the nineteenth century.

The volume includes twelve essays on a range of topics, beginning at the start of the long eighteenth century with early prose fictions by Eliza Haywood and Penelope Aubin and moving through the first quarter of the nineteenth century and the publication of Sophia Lee’s The Life of a Lover, Frances Burney’s The Wanderer (1814), and Jane Austen’s Sanditon (1817) and Persuasion (1818). Many of the essays examine the sentimental novel’s connections to other forms of eighteenth-century fiction, such as the gothic novel, prose fiction, epistolary novels, or the transatlantic novel. Some of the essays I most enjoyed in the collection problematized the sentimental novel or the heroes of these novels, as the contributions by Sodeman, Barbara M. Benedict, Brycchan Carey, and Rivero all do. However, all of the essays changed or added to my understanding of the sentimental novel in the eighteenth century in some way. For example, Ros Ballaster’s essay situates prose fictions within the context of the epistemological and scientific thought of the time, showing how amatory feelings and experiences were subjected in these fictions to the type of empirical modes that were characteristic of debates in natural science; and Bonnie Latimer’s essay provides a thoughtful analysis of the differences between proverbs, maxims, and moral sentiments in Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa that opened a new way of reading the novel for me. Similarly, Jonathan Lamb’s essay, “Sterne’s Sentimental Empiricism,” offers an insightful juxtaposition of Hobbesian and Lockean materialism and their connection to sensation as they are evinced through Yorick in A Sentimental Journey (1768) and Tristram in Tristram Shandy (1759) that was rich with insight.

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• 十八世纪的感伤小说编辑。阿尔伯特·里维罗（Albert J.Rivero）
• 珍妮佛·戈弗利（生物）

正如艾伯特·里维罗（Albert J. Rivero）在他的导言中所写，这部感伤的小说帮助塑造了今天我们所想到的代表该英语小说的习俗。该系列文章包括一些文章，这些文章阐明了感性小说如何与其他小说类型以及18世纪的思想潮流，尤其是科学和经验思想进行信息交流或联系。因此，本卷的目的是提出“思考类型的各个方面和背景”，同时也指向需要进一步研究的领域（11）。主题的灵活性使作者可以自由想象十八世纪的作者和文本如何与感伤小说的传统相抵触和抵触：例如，如梅丽莎·索德曼（Melissa Sodeman）所论述的那样，弗朗西斯·伯尼（Frances Burney）和索菲娅·李（Sophia Lee）等作家如何找到这种体裁，以此作为探讨女性在十九世纪初期流行之后的苦难问题的方式，或者哥特式小说如何使用和否定了这种形式。汉娜·多尔蒂·哈德森（Hannah Doherty Hudson）提出的情感文学习俗。该系列的唯一目的是，所有论文都提供了一种新的思维方式来思考18世纪的情感小说。该书提供了更新的方法，并且在许多情况下，还提供了有关该主题的现有奖学金的修订。尤其有价值的是，从单一的国家文学转向重点，这包括吉列·道（Gillian Dow）关于法国情感传统的论文，莫琳·哈金（Maureen Harkin）对文学的比较分析等内含物的证明。正如梅利莎·索德曼（Melissa Sodeman）所论证的那样，或者正如汉娜·多尔蒂·哈德森（Hannah Doherty Hudson）所建议的那样，哥特式小说如何同时使用和否定感性文学的习俗。该系列的唯一目的是，所有论文都提供了一种新的思维方式来思考18世纪的情感小说。该书提供了更新的方法，并且在许多情况下，还提供了有关该主题的现有奖学金的修订。特别值得一提的是，从单一的国家文学中脱颖而出，包括吉列·道（Gillian Dow）关于法国情感传统的论文，莫琳·哈金（Maureen Harkin）对文学的比较分析等在内的证据。正如梅利莎·索德曼（Melissa Sodeman）所论证的那样，或者正如汉娜·多尔蒂·哈德森（Hannah Doherty Hudson）所建议的那样，哥特式小说如何同时使用和否定感性文学的习俗。该系列的唯一目的是，所有论文都提供了一种新的思维方式来思考18世纪的情感小说。该书提供了更新的方法，并且在许多情况下，还提供了有关该主题的现有奖学金的修订。尤其有价值的是，从单一的国家文学转向重点，这包括吉列·道（Gillian Dow）关于法国情感传统的论文，莫琳·哈金（Maureen Harkin）对文学的比较分析等内含物的证明。该系列的唯一目的是，所有论文都提供了一种新的思维方式来思考18世纪的情感小说。该书提供了更新的方法，并且在许多情况下，还提供了有关该主题的现有奖学金的修订。特别值得一提的是，从单一的国家文学中脱颖而出，包括吉列·道（Gillian Dow）关于法国情感传统的论文，莫琳·哈金（Maureen Harkin）对文学的比较分析等在内的证据。该系列的唯一目的是，所有论文都提供了一种新的思维方式来思考18世纪的情感小说。该书提供了更新的方法，并且在许多情况下，还提供了有关该主题的现有奖学金的修订。特别值得一提的是，从单一的国家文学中脱颖而出，包括吉列·道（Gillian Dow）关于法国情感传统的论文，莫琳·哈金（Maureen Harkin）对文学的比较分析等在内的证据。《有感的人和年轻的韦瑟的悲伤》，以及约瑟夫·巴托洛梅奥（Joseph Bartolomeo）关于北美情感小说的文章，重点是汉娜·韦伯斯特·福斯特，苏珊娜·罗森，弗朗西斯·布鲁克和威廉·希尔·布朗的小说。由于这种联系的广度，在18世纪漫长的各个主题上工作的学者们[End Page 298]会发现该书很有用，尤其是那些对小说中的经验主义作品感兴趣的学者，他们对小说中的感性写作方式感兴趣。德国或法国，那些为了政治目的而部署感伤小说的人，从事描绘奴隶制和小说中奴隶贸易的学者，或者对19世纪感伤小说的遗产感兴趣的学生。

该卷包括十二篇关于一系列主题的文章，从十八世纪初开始，伊丽莎·海伍德和佩内洛普·奥宾的早期散文小说一直到十九世纪第一季度，以及索菲娅·李的《一生的人生》出版。情人，弗朗西斯·伯尼（Frances Burney）的《流浪者》（The Wanderer）（1814）和简·奥斯丁（Jane Austen）的桑迪顿（Sanditon）（1817）和说服力（1818）。许多文章检查了情感小说与18世纪其他形式的小说的联系，例如哥特小说，散文小说，书信小说或跨大西洋小说。在收藏中我最喜欢的一些文章对感性小说或这些小说的英雄提出了问题，就像索德曼，芭芭拉·本尼迪克特，布莱克昌·凯里和里维罗的著作一样。但是，所有论文都以某种方式改变或增加了我对18世纪感伤小说的理解。例如，罗斯·巴拉斯特（Ros Ballaster）的论文将散文小说置于当时的认识论和科学思想的背景下，展示了在这些小说中如何将动静的情感和经验置于自然科学辩论中所特有的经验模式的类型；克拉丽莎（Clarissa）为我打开了一种阅读小说的新方式。同样，乔纳森·兰姆（Jonathan Lamb）的论文《斯特恩的情感主义经验主义》提供了霍布斯主义和洛克主义唯物主义的深刻并置，以及它们与感觉的联系，这在尤里克的《情感之旅》（1768）和崔斯特拉姆·特里斯特拉姆·香迪（Tristram Shandy）（1759）中很明显有洞察力。

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