Personal Effects and Sentimental Fictions

Lynch, Deidre

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“…Festa 2006: 67). Lynch (2000), too, highlights the (capitalist) modernity of sentimental fiction in its many scenes of exchange of money/keepsakes. 41.…”

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Digressions: Sancho and Sterne

Yekani

2020

Familial Feeling

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Artifice and authenticity are conflictingly related in the extroverted and stylised displays of feeling in the texts of Laurence Sterne and Ignatius Sancho. Whereas Sterne employs aesthetic playfulness to set himself apart from literary predecessors, Sancho uses it to claim a part in the culture of taste and sensibility. This chapter reads Sancho and Sterne’s literary adoption of a digressive tonality distinctly not as imitative but as entangled. The scenes dealing with slavery in Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journey are tied into more bawdy episodes. While not necessarily only sentimental, they still elude ideas of political solidarity. Sancho’s interjections of emotional concern in his published letters in turn not only highlight his capacity to feel (as well as his attachment to his family); in adopting the Sternian digressive dash, he does not adhere to the usual linear form of redemptive abolitionist writing and displays a uniquely Black aesthetic voice, albeit one that also reproduces deprecating sentimental tropes. This needs to be read as more than simply epigonic. Sancho’s digressive tone, it will be argued, intervenes more fundamentally into the sentimentalist romance with the cultured, feeling subject of modernity, while Sterne remains more elusive in his aestheticised divagations.

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“…Festa 2006: 67). Lynch (2000), too, highlights the (capitalist) modernity of sentimental fiction in its many scenes of exchange of money/keepsakes. 41.…”

Section: The Rivalries Between the Inclusion Of Christian Black Britimentioning

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Digressions: Sancho and Sterne

Yekani

2020

Familial Feeling

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“…92 Snuffboxes were particularly valued within sentimental material and literary culture as "surrogates for particular persons". 93 In Kildare's case, nostalgia arguably progressed to the complicate state. In October 1767, Kildare was in Turin alone.…”

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Nostalgia, homesickness and emotional formation on the eighteenth-century Grand Tour

Goldsmith

2018

Cultural and Social History

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The first recorded medical diagnosis of nostalgia-an extreme form of homesickness-was published in 1688 by a Swiss medical student, Johannes Hofer. The sufferer was a young man from Berne who was studying in Basel. After "suffering from sadness for a considerable time" and unresponsive to medical interventions, he lay feverish, "weak and dying". He only began to recover when he was told he might return home. Home acted as such a powerful remedy that "he was restored to his whole sane self" before he even completed his journey. 1 Since the publication of Hofer's thesis, nostalgia and its emotional sibling, homesickness, has been discussed by contemporaries and scholars in the context of medical and Enlightenment discourses and in relation to the Swiss, migrants and lower social groups, including soldiers, servants and slaves. 2 Despite Hofer's assertion that nostalgia most commonly affected "young people and adolescents sent to foreign regions", little has been said about the most common category of young travellers in this period: the educational traveller. 3 This article begins to rectify this oversight by examining one

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“…Figure 22 is of an elaborately engraved token, decorated with a bird carrying a sprig of leaves and surrounded by the text LIBERTY IS SWEET. 82 In another token, Henry Parry, 16 years old, expressed his hopes that he would one day be free: "happy is the hour the prisoner is set free. Simple declarations of love and affection are the most common type of convict token.…”

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“…81 Ibid. 82 Ibid. 83 Eustace, "The Cornerstone of a Copious Work: Love and Power in Eighteenth-Century Courtship," 532.…”

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‘I mourn for them I loved’: the material culture of love and loss in eighteenth-century England

Jorm¹

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This thesis analyses the material culture of love and loss in eighteenth-century England through the lens of emotions. My study builds on scholarly works on material culture, emotions, death, love, and loss. It examines objects used to declare love, to express grief, and to say farewell.Chapter One introduces the historiography of this topic, outlines the methodology used, and problematises the issues and questions surrounding the relationship between individuals and objects during this period, such as the eighteenth century "consumer revolution," and the rise of sentimentalism. This chapter also introduces what I term the "emotional economy," or the value placed on an object based on emotional signficance regardless of its intrinsic value.Chapter Two explores love tokens and the role they played in not only the expression of romantic love, but the making and breaking of courtships and marriages. This chapter concludes that the exchange of tokens was vital to the expression of love, and was an expected emotional behaviour to progress a courtship into a marriage.Chapter Three explores the material culture of death, focusing on tokens created and distributed for the comforting of mourners, and the commemoration of the dead. It's findings confirmed that mourners valued tokens and jewellery, particularly those made with hair belonging to the deceased in order to maintain a physical connection to their loved ones after their passing.Chapter Four presents two case studies wherein objects are examined for their emotional value and demonstrates how objects were used to express emotions amongst the lower orders.Both the tokens of the London Foundling Hospital and the coins painstakingly inscribed by convicts express their feelings about parting. In the case of the Foundling Hospital tokens, mothers expressed grief, love, and hope for their children. Convict tokens also express grief, love and hope, and compare their situation to those of slaves, beg their loved ones to remember them well, and not to forget them.Chapter Five concludes by finding that individuals relied upon objects to express emotions and asserts that by examining the connections between emotions and material culture we can discover more about the emotional lives of the eighteenth-century English.ii Declaration by author This thesis is composed of my original work, and contains no material previously published or written by another person except where due reference has been made in the text. I have clearly stated the contribution by others to jointly-authored works that I have included in my thesis.

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Personal Effects and Sentimental Fictions

Cited by 90 publications

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Digressions: Sancho and Sterne

Digressions: Sancho and Sterne

Nostalgia, homesickness and emotional formation on the eighteenth-century Grand Tour

‘I mourn for them I loved’: the material culture of love and loss in eighteenth-century England

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