Changing sentiments and the magdalen hospital: luxury, virtue and the senses in eighteenth-century culture
Auteur :
Peace, Mary
Éditeur :
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN :
9780367875992
Date de publication :
12 déc. 2019
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
453 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Sentimentalism became popular in the eighteenth century, part of the philosophical idea that truth is founded on emotion or moral sentiment. Peace uses the London Magdalen Hospital for Penitent Prostitutes as a prism through which to explore the sentimental writing of this period.