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Sentimentalism in Laurence Sterne’s and Mary Wollstonecraft’s work Laatste update van het document:   geleden

It is obvious that the concept of sentimentalism is present in Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey, with regard to the title of his work. About three decades after the publication of Sterne’s novel, Mary Wollstonecraft’s Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark was published. It is not surprising that her work also contained sentimentalism, as this was the major literary genre in eighteenth-century England. According to William Reddy, the concept of senti...