sentimental novel

collocation in English

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sentimental
adjective
uk
/ˌsen.tɪˈmen.təl/us
/ˌsen.t̬əˈmen.t̬əl/
A sentimental person is strongly influenced by emotional feelings, especially about happy memories of past events or relationships with other people, rather than by careful thought and judgment based ...
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novel
noun[C]
uk
/ˈnɒv.əl/us
/ˈnɑː.vəl/
a long printed story about imaginary characters ...
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Thesentimentalnovelor the novel of sensibility is a genre which developed during the second half of the 18th century.
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The first section has strong philosophical content; however, it then turns to asentimentalnovelform and follows a romance.
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The latter half then changes to asentimentalnovelform and approximates to a romance.
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But it can also be read as a satire on thesentimentalnoveland its values, as the vicar's values are apparently not compatible with the real sinful world.
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The culture of performance within which mediums operated in the mid-nineteenth century frequently echoed tropes and models from existing literary culture, notably from melodramatic stage performances and sentimental novels.
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Sentimental novels also gave rise to the subgenre of domestic fiction in the early nineteenth century, commonly called conduct novels.
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Sentimental novels relied on emotional response, both from their readers and characters.
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Throughout the work, the narrator refers derisively to sentimental novels and calls attention to the ways in which events develop more realistically in his book.
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Such works, called sentimental novels, featured individuals who were prone to sensibility, often weeping, fainting, feeling weak, or having fits in reaction to an emotionally moving experience.
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She humorously demonstrates that the reversals of social convention common in sentimental novels, such as contempt for parental guidance, are ridiculously impractical; her characters are dead to all common sense.
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Only sentimental novels were to be avoided.
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