Sentiment

For 18th century readers and writers, sentiment is equivalent to a strong, romantic, usually exaggeratedly powerful feeling. Sentiment is represented in Samuel Richardson's novel Pamela. The term and the literary style originate in medieval French (and later English) romances, in which the plot is based on a romantic narrative. The hero is usually preoccupied with his or her love and love sufferings.

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Henry Mackenzie's novel, The Man of Feeling (1771).

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Romantic: "Romantic" and "romanticism" have a number of uses:...

Samuel Richardson: Samuel Richardson (August 19, 1689 – July 4, 1761) was a major eighteenth-century writer best known for his three epistolary novels: ' (1740), ' (1748) and Sir Charles Grandison (1753)....

Novel: A novel (from French nouvelle, "new") is an extended fictional narrative in prose. Down into the 18th century, the word referred specifically to short fictions of love and intrigue as opposed to romances—epic-length works about love and adventures. Having become one of the major literary genr...