EPISODE 8: Epistolary and Sentimental

2022-05-08

Part One: The Epistolary Novel. 0:00—The “Victorian” novel. 4:16—Novel inferiority. 6:00—Epistolary popularity. 6:38—Pamela. 7:33—Austen’s epistles. 7:57—Victorian epistles. 9:03—Interlude. Part Two: The Novel of Sentiment. 9:27—Sentiment defined. 11:54—Female and male. 12:57—Mawkishness. 13:48—Richardson, Pamela and Clarissa. 15:48—18th century wokeness. 17:11—MacKenzie, Man of Feeling. 20:00—Crying. 21:47—Melodrama. 26:00—Interlude. 26:37—Sentiment assaulted. 31:22—Austen’s satires. 33:38—Anne Radcliffe and the dange...

Part One: The Epistolary Novel. 0:00—The “Victorian” novel. 4:16—Novel inferiority. 6:00—Epistolary popularity. 6:38—Pamela. 7:33—Austen’s epistles. 7:57—Victorian epistles. 9:03—Interlude.

Part Two: The Novel of Sentiment. 9:27—Sentiment defined. 11:54—Female and male. 12:57—Mawkishness. 13:48—Richardson, Pamela and Clarissa. 15:48—18th century wokeness. 17:11—MacKenzie, Man of Feeling. 20:00—Crying. 21:47—Melodrama. 26:00—Interlude. 26:37—Sentiment assaulted. 31:22—Austen’s satires. 33:38—Anne Radcliffe and the danger of sentiment. 34:37—Cult of sensibility. 35:23—Sentimentalism and capitalism. 39:25—Sentiment and slavery. 42:36—Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. 43:50—Sentiment and the Victorian novel. 44:53—Human nature. 46:11—Artistic sensibility. 47:38—Sentiment and the Victorian novel continued.

Epistolary Interludes: Georg Philipp Telemann, Overture in A Minor (1736) , performed by Akademie fur altemusik Berlin, 2004.

Sentimental Interludes: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony 23 (1773), performed by WDR Symphony Orchestra, Cologne, 1995.

Illustration: Young Woman Reading a Letter, Her Head Propped Up, by Pietro Rotari (before 1762), Wikimedia.

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