Beyond epistemological confinement: The sentimental ethos of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s The Turkish Embassy Letters

In the eighteenth century sentimentalism emerged as an ideological and artistic movement highlighting the value of an alternative episteme that posed a challenge to the cult of reason. The Turkish Embassy Letters (1763), by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, are permeated by a sentimental rhetori...

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Main Author: Caballero Aceituno, Yolanda
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Universidad de Alicante 2020-12-01
Series:Feminismo/s
Online Access:https://feminismos.ua.es/article/view/2020-n36-beyond-epistemological-confinement-the-sentimental-ethos-of-lady-mary-wortley-montagus-the-turkish-embassy-letters