London! O Melancholy! : the eloquence of the body in the town in the English novel of sentiment
Morgan reads the treatment of gesture in Clarissa (Richardson, 1747 - 48), Amelia (Fielding,1 751), and Cecilia (Burney, 1782) to study the capacity the sentimental novel attributes to physical forms of eloquence to generate sociability and moderate selfishness in London. He argues that the eighteen...
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University of British Columbia
2008
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/2573 |