헨리 맥킨지의 『감성적인 남자』에 나타난 감정 과잉과 감성적 주체성의 도덕적 의미
The Moral Significance of Emotional Excess and Sentimental Subjectivity in Henry Mackenzie’s The Man of Feeling
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Henry Mackenzie’s first novel, The Man of Feeling, though avidly read and regarded as a touchstone of the sentimental genre by his contemporary readers, does not receive proper critical attention because the excess of emotions in the work seemingly denotes the limit of the sentimental novel. But it should be noted that sentimental excess as the cause of enormous popularity is intended by the author for his moral vision. Mackenzie believes that the blind pursuit of self-interest, if not checked, necessarily brings about moral degeneration. His idealization of Harley as a model of virtue, which engages with the critical debate on his mechanical response to the unfortunate, indicates the presence of social injustice as well as the urgent need for virtue. Assuming that virtuous sentiments, on which virtue depend, can be cultivated by the sentimental novel, he employs nearly all literary devices to maximize sentimental responses from readers. Most remarkable is the fragmentedness of the novel, which enables readers to get more deeply involved in the feelings of the book. By leading readers to experience a gamut of feelings from laughter to frustration and to despair, and ultimately feel sympathy with the moral vision of the novel, he seeks to transform them into sentimental subjects of virtue.
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Henry Mackenzie’s first novel, The Man of Feeling, though avidly read and regarded as a touchstone of the sentimental genre by his contemporary readers, does not receive proper critical attention because the excess of emotions in the work seemingly denotes the limit of the sentimental novel. But it should be noted that sentimental excess as the cause of enormous popularity is intended by the author for his moral vision. Mackenzie believes that the blind pursuit of self-interest, if not checked, necessarily brings about moral degeneration. His idealization of Harley as a model of virtue, which engages with the critical debate on his mechanical response to the unfortunate, indicates the presence of social injustice as well as the urgent need for virtue. Assuming that virtuous sentiments, on which virtue depend, can be cultivated by the sentimental novel, he employs nearly all literary devices to maximize sentimental responses from readers. Most remarkable is the fragmentedness of the novel, which enables readers to get more deeply involved in the feelings of the book. By leading readers to experience a gamut of feelings from laughter to frustration and to despair, and ultimately feel sympathy with the moral vision of the novel, he seeks to transform them into sentimental subjects of virtue.
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