In the middle of the eighteenth century, something new made itself felt in European culture—a tone or style that came to be called the sentimental. The sentim

This collection of new essay examines how authors of the 20th and 21st centuries continue the use of sentimental forms and tropes of 19th century literature. Cu

Ivana Bodrozic's In a Sentimental Mood is emotional, but never woeful, deliberate, yet playful poetry capable of reaching both the highest and deepest registers

Provides twenty-first century readers with a new, comprehensive and suggestive account of the sentimental novel in the eighteenth century.