Voyage sentimental

This chapter discusses sentimental fiction of the 1760s and 1770s. Sentimental novels of these decades are highly aware of their philosophical, figural, and generic conventions; ma...

Abstract Emotion, and its expression, is present in almost every facet of life. They are found in our personal relationships, morality, politics, and art. However, t...

Abstract All Species of Knowledge examines the discoveries and failures of the Russian exploratory vessel Rurik as it searched for the world’s most elusive geogra...

This chapter looks at the brief period from 1794 to the summer of 1796, in which the ex-Jesuit community began to explore ways to resolve the crisis in which it found itself. Sever...

This chapter examines the experiences of working wives and mothers (“Mercy”/“Nyasha”) as the epitome of middle-class lifestyles, virtues, and contradictions in Harare. Mercy is the...

This chapter explores the current image of mid-eighteenth-century fiction, considering the work of Tobias Smollett. No author sits less comfortably with, especially the emphasis on...

Abstract First published in 1801, Female Quixotism is a boisterous anti-romance and literary satire, in which Dorcas Sheldon (`Dorcasina’) sets out to discover for h...