'I will not weep': reading through the tears of Henry Mackenzie's Man of Feeling.(Critical essay)

The Modern Language Review | October 1, 2008| | Copyright

ABSTRACT

This article investigates tears of sympathy as part of a sentimental reading practice in the eighteenth century, and describes how Henry Mackenzie'shovel The Man of Feeling self-consciously enacts the reader's educationvia sympathetic emotional response. Mackenzie's novel is interpreted in the context of theliterature and moral-sense philosophy of eighteenth-century sensibility and sentimentalism. The ' man of feeling' consists in an always shifting perspective; it is an emotional lens, a technique of reading, rather than a clearly defined character type. ...

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