His sentimental novel Julie, or the New Heloise was of importance to the development of pre-romanticism and romanticism in fiction.

Prostitutes were often presented as victims in sentimental literature such as Thomas Hood's poem The Bridge of Sighs, Elizabeth Gaskell's novel Mary Barton, and Dickens ' novel Oliver Twist.

* Amelia ( novel ), a 1751 sentimental novel by Henry Fielding

It has been read as a family drama that validates virtue over wealth .” Little Women has been read “ as a means of escaping that life by women who knew its gender constraints only too well .” Alcott “ combines many conventions of the sentimental novel with crucial ingredients of Romantic children ’ s fiction, creating a new form of which Little Women is a unique model .” Elbert argued that within Little Women can be found the first vision of the “ American Girl ” and that her multiple aspects are embodied in the differing March sisters.

Even though Stowe's novel differs from other sentimental novels by focusing on a large theme like slavery and by having a man as the main character, she still set out to elicit certain strong feelings from her readers.

" One literary critic said that had the novel not been about slavery, " it would be just another sentimental novel ," while another described the book as " primarily a derivative piece of hack work.

" The novel has also been dismissed by a number of literary critics as " merely a sentimental novel ," while critic George Whicher stated in his Literary History of the United States that " Nothing attributable to Mrs. Stowe or her handiwork can account for the novel's enormous vogue ; its author's resources as a purveyor of Sunday-school fiction were not remarkable.

Scève was also responsible for a translation of a sentimental novel ( Grimalte y Gradissa ) by Juan de Flores as La Déplourable fin de Flamète ( 1535 ), itself a kind of sequel to Giovanni Boccaccio's Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta.

Dred can thus be placed within an African-American literary tradition as well as a political revision of the sentimental novel ( see David Walker's Appeal ( 1829 ) and Frederick Douglass's The Heroic Slave ( 1852 )).

Although Rowson was extremely popular in her time and is often acknowledged in accounts of the development of the early American novel, Charlotte Temple is often criticized as a sentimental novel of seduction.

* William Hill Brown's sentimental epistolatory novel The Power of Sympathy: or, The Triumph of Nature, usually considered the first American novel, is published in Boston.

* Henry Mackenzie's The Man of Feeling inaugurates the fashion for the " sentimental " novel.

It contains only about seven brief erotic scenes in a sentimental story the size of a long novel ( an all-ages version was also released afterward ), but the enthusiasm of the response was unprecedented, and Kanon sold over 300, 000 copies.

The letters, in book form, set a precedent for sentimentalism in European culture at large, and for the literary genres of the sentimental novel and the epistolary novel, into the 18th century, such as the " Lettres persanes " by Montesquieu ( 1721 ), " Lettres péruviennes " by Françoise de Graffigny ( 1747 ) and " Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse )" by Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1761 ).

In literary history books the Vicar of Wakefield is often described as a sentimental novel, which displays the belief in the innate goodness of human beings.

But it can also be read as a satire on the sentimental novel and its values, as the vicar's values are apparently not compatible with the real " sinful " world.

When it came to the Battle of Fancheng, however, the novel again deviates away from history to give a much more sentimental and exaggerated story on Pang De.

Although the book is unabashedly sentimental, it also depicts the sweeping social changes that Chips experiences throughout his life: he begins his tenure at Brookfield in 1870, as the Franco-Prussian War is breaking out and lies on his deathbed shortly after Adolf Hitler's rise to power.

The Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais managed to create a sentimental moment in the massacre in his painting A Huguenot on St. Bartholomew's Day ( 1852 ), which depicts a Catholic woman attempting to convince her Huguenot lover to wear the white scarf badge of the Catholics and protect himself.

Twilight a rear view of a young woman alone in a wooded landscape defecating, offers nothing sentimental or ideal in its betrayal, but instead offers a stripped away view of life and reality.

Behn's story was adapted for the stage by Irish playwright Thomas Southerne, who stressed its sentimental aspects, and as time went on, it came to be seen as addressing the issues of slavery and colonialism, remaining very popular throughout the 18th century.

This was a major event in the formation of his views on slavery ; that the idea of the contented slave in the care of a benevolent overlord was a sentimental myth.

The book is considered sentimental and written to provoke an emotional response and sympathy from the reader toward slavery in general and slave women in particular for the struggles they went through, with rape, the pressure to have sex at an early age, the selling of their children, and the treatment of female slaves by their mistresses.

Chuck Taylor of Billboard magazine wrote that the single " Beautiful Boy " was " an unexpected gem " and called Dion " a timeless, enormously versatile artist ", Chuck Arnold of People Magazine, however, labeled the album as excessively sentimental, while Nancy Miller of Entertainment Weekly opined that " the whole earth-mama act is just opportunism, reborn ".

While returning from a sentimental reunion with an old friend in Fife, during which alcohol and cannabis are consumed, he becomes distracted by the power and beauty of the Forth Railway Bridge while driving on the neighbouring Forth Road Bridge and crashes his car.

Edmund Gosse called the play " perhaps the best existing English comedy of intrigue ", while Charles Lamb wrote that " This comedy grew out of Congreve and Wycherley ," but criticized " sentimental incompatibilities " even while admitting that " the gaiety upon the whole is buoyant.

El pasacalle is a form of dance music, while the sentimental el yarabi is probably the most popular form in Ecuador.

" On the other hand, Los Angeles Times book critic David L. Ulin, while acknowledging that it is " perhaps the most celebrated baseball book of the last 50 years ", omitted it from his own 2011 list of best baseball books, saying he found it " too sentimental, too sugary, when the Brooklyn Dodgers teams Kahn describes were anything but.

There is no relation between Frazer ’ s title characters and Chaucer ’ s, even when they have the same role in life ( e. g. Chaucer ’ s Prioress is a dainty, sentimental woman while Frazer ’ s is an ambitious, domineering one ).

Merchants in the port cities with long-standing financial and sentimental attachments to the Empire were likely to remain loyal to the system, while few Patriots were so deeply enmeshed in the system.

Before 1997, many gymnasts, both female and male, wore pendants and necklaces of religious or sentimental significance while competing.

" Philip French of The Observer described it as " a well-meaning but almost totally unconvincing tale ... a sentimental mess ," while Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian stated, " This film struck me as sucrose and false when it premiered at last year's Cannes film festival.

Bart's voice actress, Nancy Cartwright, said it is one of her top three episodes together with " Bart Sells His Soul " and " Bart the Mother ", while writer Al Jean said the episode was his favorite sentimental episode.

" Leonard Klady in Variety described it as " A Star Is Born meets The Way We Were, and while discerning audiences will turn their noses up, the hoi polloi are apt to embrace this unabashedly sentimental affair and send it soaring into the box office stratosphere.

Hazzard calls him " a rock of a man against whom some might lean with confidence ; others he might crush without pity ", while his biographer concludes that " he was a man of great personal strength and considerable courage, and was capable of sentimental as well as merciless deeds ".

Lorenzo Bartolini ( 7 January 177720 January 1850 ) was an Italian sculptor who infused his neoclassicism with a strain of sentimental piety and naturalistic detail which led him furthermore Romanticism, while he drew inspiration from the sculpture of the Florentine Renaissance rather than the overpowering influence of Antonio Canova that circumscribed his Florentine contemporaries.

The boys are put off by the triteness and overly sentimental nature of the performance, and after the performers proclaim they can be " just like us ", they go behind the school and smoke furiously while coughing.

Water personalities tend to be emotional, deep, nurturing, sympathetic, empathetic, imaginative and intuitive ; however, they can also be cold, moody, jealous, sentimental, sensitive, escapistic and irrational.

Heavy lens diffusion was also used on all the other shots carrying forward the romantic and sentimental parts of the story of this film.

The music for the two Trinity-westerns ( composed by Franco Micalizzi and Guido & Maurizio De Angelis, respectively ) also brought a change into a lighter and more sentimental mood.

Uncle Tom's Cabin is written in the sentimental and melodramatic style common to 19th century sentimental novels and domestic fiction ( also called women's fiction ).

The increasing visual beauty of his films is part of their grace and sweetness, their balance between Allen's yearning romanticism and his tough eye for the fatuous and sentimental – a balance also expressed in his best screen play yet ".

Pyramus and Thisbē are two characters of Roman mythology, whose love story of ill-fated lovers is also a sentimental romance.

It also becomes too sentimental at the end.

Kitsch also refers to the types of art that are aesthetically deficient ( whether or not being sentimental, glamorous, theatrical, or creative ) and that make creative gestures which merely imitate the superficial appearances of art through repeated conventions and formulae.

Captain Georges is the nostalgic account of a wealthy young man's sentimental education and love for a peasant girl, a theme also explored earlier in his films Diary of a Chambermaid and Picnic on the Grass.

He also sang two other poems ( Colloque sentimental, Si tu ne mourus pas ) in his album On n ' est pas sérieux quand on a 17 ans ( 1987 ).

The album also features new recordings of songs including " Beauty and the Beast ", " Memory " and a sentimental tribute to The Music Man.

They hit # 3 in the UK with another girl-group cover " Sha La La ", ( originally by the Shirelles ) which also reached # 12 in the U. S. and Canada and followed with the sentimental " Come Tomorrow " but both were of a noticeably lighter texture than their earliest output.

Although the work of Edward Burne-Jones was exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery which promoted the movement, it also contains narrative and conveys moral or sentimental messages hence it falls outside the given definition.

It also set off a debate about the merits of the new sentimental style, especially in England, where conservative reactionaries were wary of the supposed feminizing influence of modern Italian music.

The hard-boiled male reporters were bolstered by a contingent of female counterparts, christened “ Sob Sisters ,” also known as the “ Pity Patrol .” Their stock and trade was the human-interest piece, heavy on sentimental tropes and melodrama, crafted to pull on the emotions and punch them up to fever pitch.

Happy hardcore, also known as happycore, is a genre of music typified by a very fast tempo ( usually around 160 – 180 BPM ), often coupled with solo vocals and sentimental lyrics.

The same straightforward sensibility which allowed Homer to distill art from these potentially sentimental subjects also yielded the most unaffected views of African American life at the time, as illustrated in Dressing for the Carnival ( 1877 ) and A Visit from the Old Mistress ( 1876 ).

The Chambers Dictionary claims that the terms novelette and novelettish have also been used in a derogatory manner, suggesting fiction which is " trite, feeble or sentimental.

There was also a strong sentimental link between the former British colony and the United Kingdom, with many seeing Britain as the " mother country " or " Home ".