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Henry Mackenzie: The Man of Feeling

Henry Mackenzie: The Man of Feeling
Henry Mackenzie: The Man of Feeling
Mackenzie's hugely popular novel of 1771 is the foremost work of the sentimental movement, in which sentiment and sensibility were allied with true virtue, and sensitivity is the mark of the man of feeling. The hero, Harley, is followed in a series of episodes demonstrating his benevolence in an uncaring world: he assists the down-trodden, loses his love, and fails to achieve worldly success. The novel asks a series of vital questions: what morality is possible in a complex commercial world? Does trying to maintain it make you a saint or a fool? Is sentiment merely a luxury for the leisured classes? This edition reprints Brian Vickers's authoritative text, with a new introduction that discusses the novel in the context of the Scottish Enlightenment and European sentimentalism.
0192840320
Oxford University Press
Vickers, Brian
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Bending, Stephen
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Bygrave, Stephen
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Vickers, Brian
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Bending, Stephen
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Bygrave, Stephen
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Vickers, Brian, Bending, Stephen and Bygrave, Stephen (eds.) (2001) Henry Mackenzie: The Man of Feeling (Oxford World's Classics), Oxford, GB. Oxford University Press, 160pp.

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Mackenzie's hugely popular novel of 1771 is the foremost work of the sentimental movement, in which sentiment and sensibility were allied with true virtue, and sensitivity is the mark of the man of feeling. The hero, Harley, is followed in a series of episodes demonstrating his benevolence in an uncaring world: he assists the down-trodden, loses his love, and fails to achieve worldly success. The novel asks a series of vital questions: what morality is possible in a complex commercial world? Does trying to maintain it make you a saint or a fool? Is sentiment merely a luxury for the leisured classes? This edition reprints Brian Vickers's authoritative text, with a new introduction that discusses the novel in the context of the Scottish Enlightenment and European sentimentalism.

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Published date: 22 November 2001

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Local EPrints ID: 12126
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/12126
ISBN: 0192840320
PURE UUID: f49be28a-d6a8-4fa2-aefe-000be4d9b430
ORCID for Stephen Bygrave: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-7015-8474

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Date deposited: 17 Oct 2005
Last modified: 14 Jun 2022 01:33

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Editor: Brian Vickers
Editor: Stephen Bending
Editor: Stephen Bygrave ORCID iD

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