The Sentimental Mode
The Sentimental Mode
This introductory chapter begins with a discussion of the transformation of the notion of sentimentality over the course of the eighteenth century. It considers Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey (1768) to get a feel for his sentimental mood or mode, especially in relation to his interest in how a mood modulates with alterations in what Sterne's century called “humor.” The discussions then turn to the paradoxical figure of the spectator in printed prose in eighteenth- century Britain, who becomes a key player in the emergence of the sentimental mode; and the relationship between Capra's master, D. W. Griffith, and Sterne's disciple, Charles Dickens.
Keywords: sentiment, Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey, sentimental model, D. W. Griffith, Charles Dickens
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