The Man of Feeling (Oxford World's Classics)

The Man of Feeling (Oxford World's Classics)

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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?

The Man of Feeling (Oxford World's Classics),Henry Mackenzie,Brian Vickers,Stephen Bending,Stephen Bygrave,Oxford University Press, USA,0192840320,18th Century English Novel And Short Story,Benevolence,Classics,English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh,Failure (Psychology),Fiction,Literary,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Psychological fiction,Sentimentalism,16th to 18th century fiction,Classic fiction,Fiction / Classics,Literature/English | British Literature | 18th C

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