Sentimental novel
Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey throughout France and Italy (1768).
Manifestations of the cult of feeling = sentimentality as the deliberate cultivation of
tender feelings (partly in Fielding). Influence of Rousseau’s Julie, our la nouvelle
Héloïse (classic novel of sentimentalism of Europe), sentiment rather than reason
guides the hero and heroine. Henry Mackenzie’s The Man of Feeling (1771) is the
best example. Its hero is a profesional man of feeling, innocent and gullible.
Gothic novel
Interest in the potentialities of the Middle Ages for picturesque horror. Horace
Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto (1765), overvalued in the early nineteenth century
(Byron and Scott). Imitations written by women who combined Gothic elements with
the cult of feeling: Clara Reeve, Charlotte Smith, Sophia Lee. The most successful
practitioner of the Gothic novel was Anne Radcliffe, whose novels show the standard
Gothic properties (secret passages, vaults, sliding panels, old manuscripts
discovered, etc.). This is laughed at by Jane Austen in Northanger Abbey.