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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lim, Daphne Pei Ying.
Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Format: Final Year Project (FYP)
Language:English
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/45910