Laurence Sterne’s a sentimental journey : an introspection into the private, emotional self.
Literary critic, John Richetti, views the sentimental novel as a form of escapism, “The sentimental novel that flourishes from the 1740s onwards reveals a similar confusion in its approach to social problems. By cultivating private sympathy and self-indulgent emotional responses to misery and injust...
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Format: | Final Year Project (FYP) |
Language: | English |
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2011
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/45910 |