Misfit forms : paths not taken by the British novel /
Lorri G. Nandrea.
- First edition.
- New York : Fordham University Press, (c)2015.
- 1 online resource (284 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: the novel, education, and experience -- Typing feeling: sympathy, sensibility, and sentimentality -- The science of the sensible: from Sterne to Charlotte Brontė -- Sense in the middle: teleological vs. cumulative plotting -- Verisimilitudes: curiosity, wonder, and negative capability -- Conclusion: Woolf's Fin.
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English fiction--History and criticism.--18th century English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century Sensitivity (Personality trait) in literature. Sympathy in literature.