From Sentiment to Sentimentality: A Nineteenth-Century Lexicographical Search

The brief account of the lexicographical history of the word ‘sentiment' in the nineteenth century, and the table of definitions which follows it, grew from my increasing sense of the shifting and ambivalent nature of the term in the literature of the period, despite the resonance and the prove...

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Main Author: Marie Banfield
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2007-04-01
Series:19 : Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
Online Access:http://www.19.bbk.ac.uk/articles/459